I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.
Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you. - Elsie De Wolfe
Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.
- Elsie De Wolfe
It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand. - Elsie De Wolfe
It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.
What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that… - Elsie De Wolfe
What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that…
I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life. - Elsie De Wolfe
I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.
You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not. - Elsie De Wolfe
You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not.
I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint. - Elsie De Wolfe
I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.
The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint. - Elsie De Wolfe
The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.
Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room. - Elsie De Wolfe
Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.
Simplicity, suitability and proportion. - Elsie De Wolfe
Simplicity, suitability and proportion.
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