The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.
Interpretation
Interior design focuses on enhancing how people experience and utilize their living spaces.
This quote by Albert Hadley emphasizes that the core purpose of interior design is to cater to human needs and improve the way individuals inhabit their environments. It highlights the relationship between design and the lifestyle of the people who use those spaces, suggesting that the functionality and aesthetics of an interior are defined by the residents' lives and activities.
In practice
In an interior design seminar discussing the needs of clients.
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.
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.
Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful.
For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.
If you have the opportunity for your art to meet activism, you shouldn't pass that up when it comes your way.
I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.
I was pirouette and flourish, I was filigree and flame. How could I count my blessings when I didn't know their names?
In contrast to the written account-which, depending on its complexity of thought, reference, and vocabulary, is pitched at a larger or smaller readership-a photograph has only one language and is destined potentially for all.
A cluster of stars palely glowed above us, between the silhouettes of long thin leaves; that vibrant sky seemed as naked as she was under her light frock. I saw her face in the sky, strangely distinct, as if it emitted a faint radiance of its own.
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