Matthew Williamson Quotes

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

Fashion and interior design are one and the same.

People want to create a space that feels like them - one that's deeply rooted in their personality. That's important. Your space is an opportunity to tell your story and showcase your experiences. That's why I think every material - down to your faucet - needs to serve a function and feel personal.

A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

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

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Being a decorator allowed me to see what about people's environments made them happy. And what things they could do to have more light and color and joy in their daily lives.

Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

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

Drew definitely has great design taste. He knows what looks good in a space, and he knows how to put together a design.

I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

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

We've achieved this feeling, for instance, with the colors. The colors in the park are harmonious with each other, not like in big cities where they don't.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

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.

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

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 don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.

I'm just not very interested in decoration.

To me, style is consistency.