“Lifestyle, personality, taste, hidden desires – you have to analyze all of these things before you can start designing in the correct way. We begin at the beginning.” – Sister Parish
“Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring.” – Carmel Snow
“Decorating is more than an investment in furniture and materials. It is an investment in living.” – Jeffery Bilheuber
“Life isn’t about finding oneself, it’s about creating oneself.” – George Bernhard Shaw
“Without tradition art is a flock of sheep without a Shepard.” – Winston Churchill
“Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.” – Euripides
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” – Edgar Allan Poe, “Eleonora”
“Buy the best, and you only cry once.” – Chinese Proverb
“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.” – Denis Diderot
“A finished person is a boring person.” – Anna Quindeni
“To be oneself, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the cowardice of surrender to conformity.” – Irving Wallace
“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly go without the necessities.” – Frank Loyd Wright
“In order to be irreplaceable – one must always be different.” – Coco Chanel
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