William Morris Quotes

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

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.

In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

I've generally got a good eye for design and proportion.

I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.

Everything must work in concert. Composition is important, but so are many other things, from content to the way colours work with or against each other.

You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.

Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns - elements that you wouldn't often put together in an interesting way.

I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.

I love a good monochromatic moment with doors/walls. I think it looks great!

In art school, you learn that design is much more than the look and feel of something - it's the whole experience.

I'm not an interior decorator; I'm a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you've got big trouble.

Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

If there is a reason for keeping the wall very quiet, choose a pattern that works all over without pronounced lines...Put very succinctly, architectural effect depends upon a nice balance of horizontal, vertical and oblique. No rules can say how much of each; so nothing can really take the place of feeling and good judgement.

I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together.

Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.

I've always been very interested in the visual aspect of what I do.

I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.

You can make them so small that they almost disappear, but I think headlights are also part of the face of a car.

I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once.