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At first sight of the Acropolis: It's beige! My color!
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It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.
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I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.
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I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.
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We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.
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The smallest part is worthy of the whole.
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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 we may grow to understand.
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Simplicity, suitability and proportion.
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I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.
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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.
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A woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.
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You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected.
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When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied is often the characteristic of the meager imagination.
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I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.
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It is not chic to be too chic.
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Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.
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Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.
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Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.
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The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.
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When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.
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Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.
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There never has been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over into something worthwhile.
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You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.
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You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not.