Nadia Giosia Quotes

I do house things. I paint. I do portraits. I also paint my house.

Who doesn't want to be Martha Stewart?

Tasteful rather than expensive.

I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.

We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things.

Every dish doesn't have to be showy, and every dish doesn't have to slap you in the face with technique.

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful - looking at a space and creating magic.

It's intimidating to try and pull your home together if you don't have an interior designer.

I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. Every detail is so familiar to me that it makes almost no claim on my attention.

When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the accessories, I usually look at myself in the mirror long and hard and then end up removing something. Whether it's a belt, bracelet or a bauble, less is always more.

Because I grew up in such tight spaces, I don't get manicures, pedicures. I'm not into cars, but I am into a fabulous house. I wanted the spiral staircase, clean sheets on the bed, to be able to take a shower.

I'd rather have a house that's nice but usable.

I guess you could say I want to become like Martha Stewart - just a sexier version!

... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.

Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.

The highest Beauty should be plain set.

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

I believe in art that conceals art.

Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes.

Consistency is a jewel, but too much jewelry is vulgar.

Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade.

There is but one art, to omit.