Elsie de Wolfe Quotes
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When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.
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Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.
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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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the smallest part is worthy of the whole.
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This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment has come to stay. ... A decade ago the apartment was considered a sorry makeshift in America, though it has been successful abroad for more years than you would believe.
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Simplicity, suitability and proportion.
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It is not chic to be too chic.
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No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.
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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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Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.
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Eating outdoors makes for good health and long life and good temper, everyone knows that.
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I believe in optimism & plenty of white paint.
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No one chair should be isolated.
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Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.
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My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability.
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I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.
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You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.
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I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive.
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A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.
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The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.
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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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[At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige! My color!
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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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I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will - awakening, development, American Renaissance - it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs.
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To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.
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You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not.
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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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I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.
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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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