Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful.
Interpretation
Decoration enhances life by providing beauty that feeds the soul.
This quote by Albert Hadley emphasizes the profound impact of decoration on our quality of life. It suggests that beauty, created through thoughtful decoration, is essential for nurturing the soul and making our existence more enjoyable and vibrant.
In practice
During a speech about interior design at a local event.
So many young decorators are trying to reinvent the wheel, and the results are sometimes very dubious. They're striving to do things that have never been done before. Quite often it is done without authority, without knowledge, and without a background in taste. They need to be educated about the past, and they need a richer vocabulary.
The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.
Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be rather well-educated people - and quite another to be a faddist, by which I mean someone who tries to conjure a totally foreign aesthetic in a misplaced environment.
Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.
Drag queens have always taken on that role of spilling the tea - and the tea is the emperor has no clothes!
Photography doesn't teach you to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance, form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.
I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long.
I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have written about a certain theme, but by reading the letters or reviews, I realise that everybody sees the book differently.
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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