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A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories arrange themselves in tableaux. Decor takes precedence over drama. Sad memories take on at least the peace of melancholy. -- Gaston Bachelard
My favorite project is always the next one. -- Michael Graves
I could never live without artwork. It's a constant inspiration. -- Narciso Rodriguez
Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life. -- Daniel Boulud
Light, air, sound. In every space, it's how you embrace those things. -- Michael Gabellini
I couldn't live without something that touches my heart. No one should. -- Donna Karan
I don't shop. I buy things that inspire me, that give me emotion. -- Giambattista Valli
Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire. -- Bryan Batt
I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives. -- Albert Hadley
I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful. -- Isaac Mizrahi
I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy. -- Catherine Malandrino
You should have a picture of yourself as a kid in your home so that you remember where you came from. -- John Mayer
Furniture and food are ways that people define their attitude toward life. They'll buy better stuff if it's offered to them. -- Terence Conran
I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house. -- Meg Ryan
I must have books everywhere. They're the soul of a room-they reveal the taste, the interests, and the secrets of whoever lives there. -- Diane von Furstenberg
I don't see boundaries between styles, such as modern or contemporary. I've collected each piece from a different experience or period of my life. -- Carlos Miele
But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true! -- Norman MacCaig
When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about giving to people and sharing with them. -- Valentino Garavani
Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program. -- Adam Gopnik
I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story. -- Pedro Almodovar
It's not hard to make a space that looks good by itself. The trick is to craft a room that's even more attractive when it's occupied. That's when it becomes magical. -- Kerry Joyce
I don't think of decorating as a science or a discipline. People always say start with the rug, but it is often the last thing I end up selecting. I begin with whatever makes my heart sing. -- Deborah Buck
I was a hoarder, and I got rid of everything. Now nothing comes in my home unless it has a purpose. And decor is not a purpose. Home is New York apartment with a table, a bed and sofas. That's it. Everything else is gone. -- Linda Evangelista
Matchy-matchy is not for me. I don't want things to be too perfect. It's like pairing a matte top with a shiny skirt, so they play off each other. I want there to be relationships with texture and color, and sometimes it's more about the contrast that chimes. -- Peter Som
If we grew our own food, we wouldn't waste a third of it as we do today. If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn't throw them out the moment we changed the interior decor. If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn't contaminate it. -- Mark Boyle
Fashion and decor should amuse you and your friends. -- Lauren Santo Domingo
I would definitely bring silver into your holiday decor. -- Emily Henderson
Beauty is my heritage, but home decor is very much my passion, -- Aerin Lauder
The places I've travelled and cultures I've experienced have been reflected in my home decor choices. -- Karlie Kloss
My wife and I battle over home decor. My style goes from Gothic to Baroque. Hers is minimalist. -- Joe Bastianich
Make sure furniture decor has similar scale. It's all about scale, proportion, measuring, being conscious of the overall plan. -- Michael S. Smith
What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor. -- Douglas Wilson
Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character. -- Charles Baudelaire
The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable. -- Robert K. Merton
Whoever we love, she or he is always under the bright spotlight on our stage and anything else is just a decor under the dimness! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything. -- Nick Harkaway
Mad Men' doesn't capture one single thing about the decor, costumes, or sexual interaction. It is a total projection of contemporary snarky attitudes into the past. -- Camille Paglia
I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there? -- Spencer W. Kimball
It's easy to get attached to idols, good things inappropriately adored. But when you have Jesus in the centre of a room, everything else only junks up the decor. -- Charles R. Swindoll
I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor. -- Erin Morgenstern
I have every magazine known to mankind. I just love home decor and travel magazines, and I'm inspired to go visit places I've never been. That's what I really want to do - travel. -- Jillian Barberie
While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into. -- Margaret Atwood

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