1. To create an interior, the designer must develop an overall concept and stick to it.-Albert Hadley
2. Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.-Steve Jobs
3. For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond and balance one another.-Andre Putman
4. 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
5. No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.-William Morris
6. I am going to make everything around me beautiful, that will be my life.-Elsie de Wolfe
7. One should never be the oldest thing in one’s house.-Patsy Stone
8. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep.
-Scott Adams
9. Fashion and interior design are one and the same.-Iris Apfel
10. We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.-Winston Churchill
11. Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.-Albert Hadley
12. Interior design is a business of trust.-Venus Williams
13. Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.-Nicholas Haslam
14. Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.-Charles Eames
15. The details are not the details, they make the design.-Charles Eames
16. 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.-Albert Hadley