Quotes About Interior

I've had rooms that didn't come out to my liking.

Big guys like the paint. I make them allergic to it.

The paint is something we need to defend.

I always pride myself on being an inside and outside player and pride myself on what I can do inside the paint.

I was always trying to get in the paint and get the easiest shots I can.

Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen.

If you want to paint the inner life, you paint it from the exterior. From the exterior, you breathe the inner life into your painting.

What I love doing is creating a room, with attractive paintings and colours and furnishings - very much my mother.

We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the evening of the 25th. They would not, however, come to us; but fled into the interior in great apparent alarm.

Detachment is the great secret of interior peace.

As a system of hybrid communicating vessels, the human interior consists of paradoxical or autogenous hollow bodies that are at once tight and leaky, that must alternate between the roles of container and content, and which simultaneously have properties of inner and outer walls.

The notion of private ideas had no ground in [prehistoric] emotional experience.... The notion of a private interior in which the subject can close the door behind it, reflect upon and express itself was unknown before the early individualistic turn in antiquity; its propagandists were the men known as sages or philosophers.... who first gave the motif that true thought was only possible as independent thought, as thinking differently from the stupid masses....

The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it...

The guiding principle of Martin's personality, the sum of his interior existence, was the desire to be left alone. If all those years he'd sought attention, even novelty, and if he still relished them, then that was because attention proved him different and solitude begins in difference.

With his shyness and his formality and his tyrannical rages he protected his interior so ferociously that if you loved him, as she did, you learned that you could do him no greater kindness than to respect his privacy.

The world is a big place, he said, but so is the inside of an apartment!

Dane followed the man inside and noted the opulently decorated foyer. Somebody had lots of money with zero decorating skills.

The light in that room was a kind of malpractice.

It is ridiculous to lay down to people where a thing should stand, design everything for them from the lavatory pan to the ashtray. On the contrary, I like people to move their furniture so that it suits them (not me!), and it's quite natural (and I approve) when they bring the old pictures and mementos they have come to love into a new interior, irrespective of whether they are good taste or bad.

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

Let your personality and passions shine through in the objects you choose to display in your home.

White makes your house more peaceful and elegant.

Everything I've designed is intended not to match perfectly but to sit together in harmony, to add flair and personality to any room.

The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.