Bobby Berk Quotes

We've gone from a world in which Starbucks set a cutting-edge standard for mass-market design to a world in which Starbucks establishes the bare minimum. If your establishment can't come up with an original look, customers expect at least some sleek wood fixtures, nicely upholstered chairs, and faux-Murano glass pendant lights.

You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic pillows off a more Moroccan-inspired one.

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

The little black dress is the hardest thing to realize because you must keep it simple.

I work in three shades of black.

Even at home, I don't have pictures on the wall of jobs I've done.

Homes are filled with who you are, as opposed to things.

I love nice fabrics and texture like velvet and silk, and have a special Moroccan corner in my house to curl up and read in.

I'm pretty bland. I'm not a big decorator.

People are understanding what it means to really create a space that feels like a direct reflection of you and I think with brands like Living Spaces, you can really start to take those chances for the first time.

A lot of people spend all this time painting their house, picking out rugs, and then they put fluorescent lighting in there. It totally ruins the mood.

In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.

Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order, proportion, balance - is in Egypt.

I'm still just a kid learning about minimalism, and he's a master of it. It's just really such a blessing, to be able to work with him. I want to say that after working with Rick, it humbled me to realize why I hadn't - even though I produced "Watch the Throne"; even though I produced "Dark Fantasy" - why I hadn't won Album of the Year yet.

I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded.

One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface.

My aesthetic is about simplicity, elegance, and comfort, whether that is interpreted in a man's suit or a track suit.

An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all over white- and somebody will say what exquisite taste. You know in your own mind, in your own soul, that it is not taste at all˘that is the want of taste˘that is mere evasion. English music is white and evades everything.

I don't know, it's dorky. Just like quotes and stuff. Something I want to see everyday or something I want to be there. I don't know. I can put a hole in the wall if I want. It's mine. It's very simple. It's a very tiny house, but I can do whatever I want to. I can rip up the terrible vinyl floor and recycle it. Just create a good space. A quiet place to be.

I'm a sucker for interiors and carefully, beautifully filmed people sitting in a big room. My appetites are simple.

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.

So that’s our approach. Very simple, and we’re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we’re running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let’s make it simple. Really simple.” Apple’s design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me.

We have a passion for keeping things simple.