Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful.
Interpretation
Decoration enhances life by providing beauty that feeds the soul.
This quote by Albert Hadley emphasizes the profound impact of decoration on our quality of life. It suggests that beauty, created through thoughtful decoration, is essential for nurturing the soul and making our existence more enjoyable and vibrant.
In practice
During a speech about interior design at a local event.
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.
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.
The charge frequently leveled against poetry - that it is difficult, obscure, hermetic and whatnot - indicates not the state of poetry but, frankly, the rung of the evolutionary ladder on which society is stuck.
Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.
Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.
The rhythm, the sounds, the tonality, the chord sequences, the individual effect of each instrument and each section of the band - I'm talking about a whole continent in my music.
The principal role of a logo is to identify, and simplicity is its means... Its effectiveness depends on distinctiveness, visibility, adaptability, memorability, universality, and timelessness.
Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
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