James M. Cain Quotes

I always want objects in my home that have a connection to me or something I've loved. It's still stuff, but it's stuff that has meaning.

Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.

Your home should tell the story of who you are.

I believe your home tells a story about who you are and who you aspire to be. We represent ourselves through the things we own. I don't believe in trends. I believe in collecting things that you connect with. We should surround ourselves with things we care about, that have meaning.

A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.

Whenever anyone puts decor or artwork on the walls, it's always personal. You want people to come into your home and see something that reflects your personality.

When I wear jewelry it needs to really mean something.

I bought a painting in Madrid on my first trip there too and a lot of people say, 'Well it's not the greatest painting' and I say, 'It is to me.' OK, you can look at a beautiful painting and say, 'That's beautiful' but to me, it feels warmer to fill my home with pictures of friends and family and paintings of places I've gone. That's what I want to come home to.

Interior decor is my guilty pleasure. If I'm going to splurge on something, it's more for my home than for clothes.

No one is a plain white room. I hate going into a home that is done to the nines but has nothing do with the homeowner - no knickknacks, no art that has anything to say about the person who lives there.

I don't ever want to part with any of my shoes. They all have a special place in my heart because they say something about who you are today.

I've always felt that color is intrinsically personal. It evokes a tremendous amount of emotion. If there's a color you respond to, that's something you can incorporate into your home. No one can tell you it's wrong.

A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I'm so keen on expressing is that, if you don't do it for yourself, if you're always seeking affirmation from outside, you'll never have a home. It'll just be a house.

Every decorative piece in this house is my feeling, my choice.

The home is the center of your soul; it's a total reflection of your inner life. If you have a dreary home, it means you are dark inside.

About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live with things that I love. There is not one thing in my home that doesn't have meaning to me.

I think in your home, you should only use colors that you look good in. It's a little self-serving but think if it as you're on a stage. Not with any pressure, but you want to showcase yourself.

When you're choosing furniture for your home that's supposed to express who you are, what you are also saying is you want other people to infer what you want them to infer. What if they see something different? Wouldn't it be really depressing if you're trying to be bohemian and instead they see you as Rush Limbaugh?

People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists into their lives, into their physical houses and sort of live with portions of them. But they're not really deeply engaging with them.

Jewelry is something that has to do with emotion. That aspect of jewelry really interests me.

Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.

I collect objects I fall in love with more than antiques per se. Value is not a criteria that attracts me to something.

My office looks very empty compared with my house. The house is completely crammed full with things that Patrick and I love. It's very eclectic. There are things that have no value but which we like. We have a lot of Belgian painters; we have international painters. We have nice things; we have ugly things. I don't want that things are predictable.

The spaces we live in should tell our story.

My home in Moga has turned into something really special.