Stephen Gardiner Quotes

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

I'm just not very interested in decoration.

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.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

I'm less interested in the inside of whatever it is I own than on the outside of what it sits on.

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.

To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

Apart from differentiating our spaces with design, we also look for buildings that have distinctive character. We make sure every seat is a good one.

To have a beautiful house on the outside is one thing... Once you get inside, that's what really makes a home.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

A warrior of the Light does not rely on strength alone; he makes use of his opponent's energy, too.

What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

[O]ne can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.

There is no beauty without order.

Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent.

Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

Hope is life's greatest treasure. If you have no hope, create some!

Every Warrior of the Light has, at least once, believed he was not a Warrior of the Light.

If a man walks in beauty, he will create, and when he creates, he prospers.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons.