Drew Barrymore Quotes

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.

Too much clutter is a disturbance to the energy of a space for me. It's big no-no for me.

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

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

Earlier this year I had my hair feng-shuied.

I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn't help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural photography sets up an artifice.

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.

When you come to a hotel room, you want it to be grand, functional and beautiful. But you don't want things that are not useful. Sometimes you go to hotels and there are all these frames and pictures of people you don't know, and you end up hiding everything in the drawer, and then housekeeping come and put it out again.

Feng shui isn't open to interpretation.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

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.

Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it's mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes.

I've stayed in enough hotels so I really know what works and what doesn't design-wise.

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

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.

How do you get 'feng shui' out of 'thoughtful'?

Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.

Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.