Good Quotes: Cesare Pavese
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential ...
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Good Quotes: Proverbs on Light
"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." -Chinese Proverb As we look at image after image of beautiful outdoor sanctuaries, we've taken note of one detail that adds to any garden, patio,...
Good Quotes: Jennifer Morla
"Accidents often produce the best solutions… only you can recognize the difference between an accident and your original intent." -Jennifer Morla Jennifer Morla until recently, was the Chief ...
Good Quotes: A Few Words on Keeping it Simple...
For anyone in the midst of the Cure, we pass along a few good quotes on the virtues of simplicity... “Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.” - Plato ...
Good Quotes: Andrew Wyeth
"One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes." Andrew Wyeth, iconic American painter, died at 91 today and will be missed the world around. New to Wyeth's work? Click through the jump to ...
Good Quotes: From Street Artist Banksy
Some might scoff at heeding the advice of a graffiti artist, but this quote by Banksy is quite relevant when applied to the design of our own homes. Find out how after the jump......
Good Quotes: From Paul Rand
"Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar clichés or a wild scramble for novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects...
Good Quotes: On Slowing Down This Month
December can seem like a month that just seems to slip through our fingers. We all have a tendency to pile on more things in every hour of available space on our calendar. As a result it's easy to ...
Good Quotes: Bruce Sterling
"It's not bad to own fine things that you like. What you need are things that you GENUINELY like. Things that you cherish, that enhance your existence in the world. The rest is dross..."...
Good Quotes: Rita Konig
"It doesn't necessarily follow that if everything in the room is beautiful you end up with a beautiful room. I think the best rooms are those that have a mix of things and an ugly lamp with a crooked...
Good Quotes: Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes...
Good Quotes: More Ikea Catalogs Than Bibles
A reader in Seattle sent us this thought-provoking tidbit that appeared in The Daily, University of Washington's student newspaper: "According to Carnegie Melon[sic], only one book has been distrib...
Good Quotes: On Design
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple... ...
Good Quotes: Amy Krouse Rosenthal
There's the buzz you get the first few times you walk into a room after you've just rearranged some furniture. Oh, yeah, the couch is over there now, next to the plant . . . and the chairs are here. T...
Good Quotes: Miguel Angel Poot
We paint so that the souls may sing. -Miguel Angel Poot, Pomuch Campeche, Mexico (from an exhibit by Jeffrey Becom several years ago)...
Good Quotes: Natalia Ilyin
In a real home theres a place for talking to yourself alone. Theres a place for your visiting friend and for her children who climb all over your sofa while eating pudding. Theres a place for stu...
Good Quotes: Frances Mayes
Ever since my first trip to Europe. . .my profound desire for home, for the profoundly beautiful nest, the kitchen garden, the friends gathered at my table, for the candlelit baths, and the objects ar...
Good Quotes: Worldchanging
When we become conscious about what we buy, we end up with more space for appreciating the objects that surround us, and what we have actually can make us happier. -Worldchanging: A User's Guide for ...
Good Quotes: Katherine Mansfield
"Tidied all my papers. Tore up and ruthlessly destroyed much. This is always a great satisfaction." -Katherine Mansfield ...
Good Quotes: DesignLink on the Antiques Market
"Deep-pocketed collectors born post-1960 are abandoning "formality and fussiness" for clean and straightforward. Antiques and their buyers grow younger with each passing day." - Herman Miller Design ...
Good Quotes: Ilse Crawford
Art is not just for weekends. -Ilse Crawford, Sensual Home ...
Good Quotes: Josef Frank
"The home does not have to be planned out in detail, just put together by pieces its inhabitants love." -Josef Frank ...
Good Quotes: Russel and Mary Wright
"Good, informal living substitutes a little headwork for a lot of legwork. It doesn't need wealth, but it does take thought, some ingenuity and resourcefulness, and more than a little loving care to...
Good Quotes: Dr. Seuss on Color
"Green Days. Deep deep in the sea. Cool and quiet fish. That's me. On Purple Days I'm sad. I groan. I drag my tail. I walk alone. But when my days are Happy Pink it's great to jump and not just t...
Good Quotes: Tom Waits
The Sonoma resident (and father of three) weighs in on rooming with kids: Yeah, well, living with kids is like living with a bunch of drunks. You know you really have to be on your toes all the time...
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