Gauri Khan Quotes

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

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

Don't feel you have to buy something to sit in or at. Buy something you are emotionally attached to and build your design around that. One Matisse cutout poster could provide you with your whole color scheme!

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 love to paint. And I have another profession - an interior design business.

I never set out to do interior design; I just do what I do, and some people come along and want me to work with them.

I've been fascinated with interior design for as long as I can remember.

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.

My secret desire is to be an interior designer. I'd love to make houses for rich clients who can afford to do things right.

My love for interior designing has always been there.

There's a big difference between decorators and designers and the training is very different.

I've always loved interior design.

Sometimes living in a room that's badly designed isn't the worst thing in the world. Trust me - this is a fact! Living in a room that has no design whatsoever is even worse. I've learned this from my many clients over the years that have moved into new houses and just can't figure out where to begin.

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric - it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation.

I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

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.

I like interior decoration, so I might do something in that. I might, at some point, take two years off to study interior decoration.

I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.

Furnishing a home is no different than going into the studio and making music. You want to make sure you've pared down all the extra details so that in the end, every stitch has a context uniquely yours.

When I started my own practice, I was criticized, not because I was doing product design but because, like Le Corbusier, I was insisting on paintings in all of my buildings. I would paint wall murals in the houses that I designed, just as he did in the '20s and '30s.

You can learn the subtle language of interior style, but many people simply buy it. If you put yourself in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing, you can be confident it will look good.

I came from product design originally - I had been designing dolls for a toy company since I was 16 - so I'm used to working with plastic and different things. I had an innate interest in objects.

I spearhead interior design for all Trump projects.