Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.

Beige is atmosphere. It's bisque, it's ivory, it's cream, it's stone, it's toast, it's cappuccino. It;s well, it's magic.

An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.

Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.

Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful.

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 wellbeing.

I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives.

Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.

Nothing comes cheap, though the educated eye will always spot very nice things for the least money.

The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.

Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating.

Technology is anything invented after you were born.

Loneliness had made the Queen bitter, bitterness had made her selfish, and selfishness had made her suspicious. --The Changeling

I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context.

Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature.

Past and future are two aspects of the same coin. The name of the coin is mind.

Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind

In nearly every case, trying to lead everyone results in leading no one in particular.

Most ferocious was Kobe. Fiercest, most competitive, it was Kobe. D Wade is second after that.

Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.

Racial discrimination against a white is as unconstitutional as race discrimination against a black.