Profoundly inspirational decoration quotes about decorating will challenge the way you think, change the way you live and transform your whole life.
Famous Decoration Quotes
Have nothing in your home that you don’t know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. William Morris
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
One should never be the oldest thing in one’s house. Patsy Stone
Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection. Jack Gardner
Be faithful to your own taste, because nothing you really like is ever out of style. Billy Baldwin
But he meant beauty in the sense of its organic connection to the material. And this is the connection that, for me, separates true stylists from decorators. The decorators are easy to recognize. That’s why critics love them so. Sidney Lumet
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
I like you. Therefore I will decorate you with qualities you don’t have. Aleksandra Ninkovic
A designer knows when he has reached perfection not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away. Antione de Sainte Exupery
Smile once a while; even if life tastes like bitter bile, just file out your teeth and cheeks and take a mile of sweet smiles. Smile, make it your life’s style. Decorate your face with piles of smiles! Israelmore Ayivor
Have no fear of perfection you’ll never reach it. Salvador Dali
The bed is just a decoration in a busy man’s bedroom. Michael Bassey Johnson
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams
Never be decieved by exterior decorations, some monsters go about on suit and tie and of course a Bible. Paul Bamikole
Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There’s more to life than decorating. Albert Hadley
Being in war itself is a gallant, awards are mere decorations. Pushpa Rana
All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer. William Morris
Literary translation is not merely an act of picking words from one language and keeping it by dipping in the vessel of another language. Those words need to be rinsed, washed, carved and decorated as much as possible. Suman Pokhrel
If you wait until you have enough money to decorate and make your home your own, it will never happen. If you wait until you can afford to buy everything new, you are missing the point. It is the old, the new, the hand-me-down, the collected, the worn but loved things in your home that make it your own. Stacy Risenmay
No amount of fancy decor will make the slightest bit of difference to your ability to sleep soundly if you do not take heed of what you do before you get anywhere near your bedroom. Only once this has been addressed, can this room become one of your most powerful allies in pursuit of wellbeing, happiness and good health. Michelle Ogundehin
Home is the nicest word there is. Laura Ingalls Wilder
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. E M Forster
She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never condescended to construct a decoration. Anthony Trollope
Raub’s quarters were gross. They were decorated like something out of a hunting lodge crossed with a whore’s boudoir from a bad Western film. Jennifer Foehner Wells
Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is. Charles M. Schulz
Decoration is primarily concerned with superficialities i.e. changing the surface of a thing, and not its substance and must therefore occupy its own space separate from art. Ryan Muldowney
Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works. Steve Jobs
There are still no curtains in the rooms, still no sign of eccentricity. Alain Bremond Torrent
Form follows function. Louis Sullivan
Sadly kitchens often fall into the decorative trap of defaulting to basics plain white units, tiled splash-back behind the sink or hob and possibly a large Jolly coloured standalone fridge freezer as the one note of individuality. Michelle Ogundehin
Behind every attractive room, there should be a very good reason. Sister Parish
Remember, having a good head on our shoulders is not just for decoration purposes. Sunday Adelaja
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution isn’t beautiful, I know it is wrong. Richard Buckminster Fuller
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
There was no sugar! That was better for our health; no need to taste such a boring thing. Sugar is one of these decorative ingredients; those ingredients that deceive you by changing the bitterness of reality into some dazzling bites of sweetness. Noha Alaa El Din
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo Da Vinci
Looking at a plain wall is akin to staring blankly into space. We have a fundamental need for visual nourishment and stimulation in our homes, for our eyes to dance lightly over surfaces and not find them wanting. Michelle Ogundehin
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design. Charles Eames
Picture a place called the Karma Kafe and it’ll save me the bother of describing it. There was nothing in it you wouldn’t expect, from the Buddha flowerpots to the wallpaper decorated with symbols that probably said, If you bought this just because it looked pretty, may Buddha piss in your coffee, you culturally ignorant moron. Kelley Armstrong
Often what’s wrong with some modernist houses they are kept vacuum sealed all the way through. And then people wonder why they haven’t any atmosphere. John Stefanidis
She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never condescended to construct a decoration. Anthony Trollope
Your ultimate reason for staying in this crooked world is not to imitate its devastating physique, but trying do something about its ugly appearance. Michael Bassey Johnson
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. Frank Gehry
It’s excellence in leadership when everyone wants to manufacture a black shoe and you manufacture a designer black shoe with gold medal on top. Do something new; do something better! Israelmore Ayivor
No pattern should be without some sort of meaning. William Morris
You do not see any improvements you would make?”
Miss Harding’s smile turned mischievous. Not at present. But I should have to see the inside. That is where ladies really excel, you know, in curtains and cushions and such. Indeed, David murmured, remembering how Maude had filled the London house with bolts and piles of fabrics and wallpapers and pillows the instant they arrived. Everything in the very latest style. And then he thought of Emma’s cosy sitting room, all books and family portraits and dog beds. Amanda McCabe
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design. Charles Eames
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. Ernest Hemingway
I always put in one controversial item. It makes people talk. Dorothy Draper
Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful. Albert Hadley
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo Da Vinci
Decoration is just make up for the wrinkles of the idea. Thomas Manss
A room should never allow the eye to settle in one place. It should smile at you and create fantasy. Juan Montoya
The aim of art is to create space. Frank Stella
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
I’ve been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.Jeffrey Veen
We shape our homes and then our homes shape us. Winston Churchill
After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement. Albert Hadley
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams
Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people. Napoleon Bonaparte
A designer knows when he has reached perfection not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away. Antione de Sainte Exupery
Interior decoration partly thrives on being social. Nicholas Haslam
The details are not the details. They make the design. Charles Eames
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church’s greatest ornament. Igor Stravinsky
Real comfort, visual and physical, is vital to every room. Mark Hampton
What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re living of experience. Rebecca West
Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is. Charles M. Schulz
You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy. Philippe Starck
Behind every attractive room, there should be a very good reason. Sister Parish
I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season. Ashley Tisdale
One should never be the oldest thing in one’s house. Patsy Stone
I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don’t need so much decoration. Jil Sander
Home is the nicest word there is. Laura Ingalls Wilder
I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you’re making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It’s not just an aesthetic decoration. Genevieve Gorder
An empty room is a story waiting to happen, and you’re the author. Charlotte Moss
I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply. John Bright
Good design doesn’t date. Harry Seidler
I love Christmas! I’m not religious, but I love the trappings of the season. I love the decorations, and the music, and Santa, and the festive food, and the cinnamon and vanilla infused aromas. Jane Cleland
Be faithful to your own taste, because nothing you really like is ever out of style. Billy Baldwin
