Jeremiah Brent Quotes

Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.

I'm known as a person who, like, steps out of the comfort zone. Who kind of breaks the rules and crosses the line in the sense of making YouTube videos.

Schiaparelli was almost like a pop artist. Even the first sweater had a naive visual impact. You immediately get it, and you love it or you hate it. There's nothing in between. But she had a proper upbringing, so she also understood about quality and luxury.

I never studied interior design, but I'm a creative person. And what we surround ourselves with is very important - what makes you feel happy, what makes your senses feel good.

We did what we wanted to do, made it work, and made our own rules - and the best art we could - along the way.

I'd always been acutely sensitive to my surroundings - and aware that I could make them rather than just observe them. So I began by designing interiors for myself, for friends, for clients - I just felt that I'd discovered my element, and those who really looked at what I was doing liked it - and the rest followed.

There are bathroom singers, but I am a bathroom painter. In other words, my art will stay inside the four walls of my house.

You have to push the boundary, do something that people haven't seen before, because then it is exciting for them.

I broke pretty much every rule of classic game design and tried to invent new ones.

Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.

A great interior designer is able to capture who someone is and adapt to who they are.

My idea for Gucci was crazy, but that's the only idea I had. I was sure I'd be fired after the first show.

Question everything. Don't try to emulate someone else's path. Look at what you have, the tools you have, the place you're in; know the rules, and break them.

Your space, when done correctly, is the purest extension of yourself!

We are a little out of the box.

One of the best things to do with tablescapes in my experience, is really curating them with things that you've collected.

Pinterest is awesome. You can get so many wonderful ideas.

There is no point in playing safe, because the audiences love different quirks: something that is crazy and out-of-the-box. I think that's what my space is, and if you are going to have your own space in the industry, this is where I want to be.

Working with the brand has taught me to keep it classy but also shake things up. I love that about Chanel because I get to be pretty, but I also get to ride my skateboard in Chanel.

When I look back, there was obviously the arch of my creativity and when I was young, I used to go to open homes with my mother and I used to imagine how I could make the space better and how people would live in it.

My love for interior designing has always been there.

I like more the fact that I like to think out of the box. Thinking out of the box goes along with dressing out of the box and living out of the box.

We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.

When I was creative director [at Estée Lauder], I was always being asked about my beauty must-haves. From there I had this fun idea to create a line of what was in my makeup bag. But I also love accessories, and people associate me with home, family, and beauty. As a girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse; if I could still play with it now, I would! I used to love a well-arranged room: the furniture, the fabric, the lighting.

It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?