Frank Gehry Quotes

I like to entertain at home, to live beautifully but comfortably.

It's cool to have a well run, comfortable and inviting home.

A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.

The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.

This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off.

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.

I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition.

I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated.

My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.

I don't like interior decorating. It looks gorgeous, but it doesn't have that lived-in look.

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.

To have a beautiful house on the outside is one thing... Once you get inside, that's what really makes a home.

I can't make a house homely. My house just looks like a garage or a shed. I'm not untidy, but it just looks so uninviting.

I think to make your home as comfortable as possible is so important. There’s something really interesting about that as a trend, that whole idea of lifestyle and being happy in your surroundings.

All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.

I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.

I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.

By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.

Because I grew up in such tight spaces, I don't get manicures, pedicures. I'm not into cars, but I am into a fabulous house. I wanted the spiral staircase, clean sheets on the bed, to be able to take a shower.

I have a storage unit, as I moved out of a bigger house into a smaller house in L.A. I put all my stuff in a storage unit, where I have the most amazing collection of bad paintings, which took me 10 years to put together.

I've got one of those over-stuffed leather chairs from the Pottery Barn. It faces north. I live in San Francisco, so there's the Golden Gate Bridge off to the left, and there's Alcatraz off to the right, and I've got a pile of pulp fiction next to me, and there's usually a decent bottle of red wine next to the fireplace.

Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home.

I create homes that feel like a home - it could be a palace or a mansion - but each one has a comfortable feeling.

Your home is a kind of a reflection of your family, your life, where you're at, where you want to be, so I love to entertain people in it.

I live in Australia Zoo. I have a very private home. We've got three bedrooms, one bathroom... The carpets are rose-coloured, which grossed Steve out, but I love it. He let me do everything the way I wanted. The house is just warm and cozy and small.