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Interior Designer Inspirational Quotes (565)

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I don't think that type should be expressive at all. I can write the word 'dog' with any typeface and it doesn't have to look like a dog. But there are people that [think that] when they write 'dog' it should bark.
Massimo Vignelli
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And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.
Candace Wheeler
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I don't happen to like pretty things. I don't like pretty dresses. I like more attractive. I like people that look a little bit more offbeat. I don't like the classic pretty face. That doesn't mean it's not pretty or it's not wonderful, and most people don't agree with me, but that's the way I think.
Iris Apfel
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The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.
Elsie de Wolfe
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I like it to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless.
Massimo Vignelli
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I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.
Iris Apfel
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It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.
Lenny Kravitz
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One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes.
Verner Panton
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I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert.
Martha Stewart
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You do design because you feel it inside you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.
Massimo Vignelli
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If you do it right, it will last forever.
Massimo Vignelli
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I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.
Genevieve Gorder
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If I cry, it means I'm too weak to compete in this sport. That's bull.
Shawna Robinson
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Nine out of ten groups that came out in '89 are gone. I'm still here.
Lenny Kravitz
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More is more and less is a bore.
Iris Apfel
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I've always liked a formal layout and informal planting, she explained. First get the structure right, like the bones in a face, then plant it like a crowded shoe. If you have a strong layout, you can let the plants seed themselves all over the place. Haphazard, unexpected... I like to be surprised by a garden.
Nancy Lancaster
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I believe that everything in Nature aspires to the acme of strength, well-being, and happiness and everything that deviates from this I call immoral.
Henry van de Velde
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The cocktail party is probably America's greatest contribution to the world of entertaining.
Martha Stewart
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Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.
Kelly Wearstler
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I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.
Lenny Kravitz
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I am convinced that a calm, quiet and harmonious interior can be as beneficial to health as a sensible diet and regular exercise
Kelly Hoppen
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Everything I commission - whether it is for me or for a client's home or for a hotel or office - is absolutely unique to that job. I have everything made, or I find vintage and antique pieces at markets and auctions.
Kelly Wearstler
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It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.
Nate Berkus
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Go outside! I mean, even leaves from a park are beautiful in a clear glass vase. I'd rather see that than fake anything any day.
Nate Berkus
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