John Rocha Quotes

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.

I have been constantly working on the interiors of my homes in Delhi, Goa, Dubai, Mumbai, and the Red Chillies Building. I had been designing homes, too. Having a background in art, graphic design, and charcoal helped me in my work immensely.

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.

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

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 weirdly love interior design and real estate and all of that. I really do. I get chills from it.

I spearhead interior design for all Trump projects.

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

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

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.

'Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.

I'm an interior designer, first and foremost. I can do one thing really well, and I'm going to stay in my little niche.

I've always loved design. I loved imagining the way people could live in a space, that's what I connected to.

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

Because I live and breathe design every day, sometimes I will come across an idea that is something I want to try. It often comes from an old hotel or an old restaurant, and I will adapt it to be residential.

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

I never considered interior design as a career option. I had designed a couple of our homes, and people liked my work. Friends came forward and asked me to help them do up their homes, and that's how it started.

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 love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.

When it comes to designing your first apartment, I think people get overwhelmed and end up collecting pieces that don't always mesh well together because they don't have a clear vision. Take your time and use tools that can help inspire and guide you through the process.

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

The creative part, with the writing of it and the vision, and finding the voice of a show and the characters, is much harder to teach somebody. It's like music. You can either play it or you can't. If you can't play music and you really struggle and work hard, you can learn, but you have to have some inner gift to take it to the next level.

The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.