- “I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.” — Frank Lloyd Wright
- “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Antoine de Saint Exupéry
- “Good design is good business.” — Thomas J. Watson Jr.
- “All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.” — Philip Johnson
- “Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” — Bill Moyers
- “The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” — Aristotle
- “If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”
— Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect
- “To me, interiors should not be about trends; they should be about people and how they live.”
— James Huniford, interior designer
- “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
— Aristotle, Greek philosopher
- “Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.”
— Coco Chanel, French fashion designer
- “A room should start a conversation before people actually start exchanging words.”
— Barry Dixon, interior designer
- “Interiors speak! Rooms emphasize whether one exists or lives, and there is a great difference between the two!”
— Van Day Truex, interior designer, director of design, Tiffany and Co.
- “Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s well being.”
— Albert Hadley, interior decorator
- “You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”
— Walt Disney
- “Design is not for philosophy it’s for life.”
— Issey Miyake
- “Having an idea in the first place is just the start; bringing that idea to life in a way that inspires others to help it grow can mean the difference between an abandoned sketch on a notepad and a successful finished product in a customer’s hands.”
— Lucy Blakemore
- “Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.”
— Mary Lou Cook
- “Breaking the rules often gives a room charm and makes it less stagnant,” —Steven Volpe
- “Every room needs a slap in the face.” — Dransfield and Ross co-owner Geoffrey Ross, Jan/Feb 06
- “For me, a very complex world has to be simplified. Has to be stripped down. And design, for me, was a way out of confusion. Because great design simplifies a very complicated world” — Photographer Platon
- “Empathy is the cornerstone of design.” “You have two eyes, two ears and one mouth, use it in that proportion.” — Ilse Crawford
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