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.
Interpretation
Decorating transcends aesthetics, focusing on enhancing life and enriching the soul.
The quote emphasizes that the essence of decorating lies not merely in creating visually appealing spaces for decoration's sake, but rather in fostering an environment that enhances oneβs life experience and nurtures the spirit. It suggests that true beauty in design should serve a deeper purpose, contributing to the emotional and spiritual well-being of individuals who inhabit those spaces.
In practice
A designer might use this quote during a home decor workshop to inspire participants to think beyond mere aesthetics.
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.
Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful.
Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real.
And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.
I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's different from prescribing a way in which a writer should write.
I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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