Anouska Hempel Quotes

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.

Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.

In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.

I love the challenge of taking colors that are totally disparate and making them work together in an interesting way.

I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.

It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of African statues and things, and the cleaner arranges them like soldiers, which drives me mad. So I have to rearrange them, and I must drive her mad, because I'm doing anarchy and she's doing military manoeuvres.

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.

Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution of an idea.

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it.

I love linen in soothing colors for any room in the house.

Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that.

Sometimes in a sculpture, it's interesting to me what's stylized and what's natural and how those forms interrelate, as they interrelate in ourselves.

I'm not a legislator. I've never been a lobbyist. I've never worked a session before, but based on my conversations with leadership in the Senate and the House, I get the general sense that people want to work together to make things happen.

I like transparency. I love to have views throughout the house.

As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.

A product can live on one great idea. An interior needs 1,000 great ideas to really live, which makes interior design a whole orchestration of this art of juxtaposition, placement, and combination.

I love when architects build a golf course that compliments the landscape rather than intrudes upon it.