"God is in the details."
-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"Less is more."
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

"Design is not just what it looks like. Design is how it works."
- Steve Jobs

"Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."
- William Morris

"And let it be noted that there is no more delicate matter to take in hand, nor more dangerous to conduct, nor more doubtful in its success, than to set up as the leader in the introduction of changes. For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new.''
- Niccolò Machiavelli

"You see things, and you say: `Why?' But I dream things that never were, and I say `Why not?'''
- George Bernard Shaw

"I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever."
- Sister Parish

"...People's live are expressed in little details....The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the books on the bedside table are all strong symbols of a life in progress. You look at these details and a world unfolds - here are their books, the paintings they cherish, the music that soothes their souls."
- Charlotte Moss, A Passion for Details

"There is nothing more trite than a set period - any antique period bought intact for today's living. But, by the same token, a contemporary house that ignores all vestiges of the past in order to express a purely modern philosophy runs the risk of becoming a stagnant document of its own time."
- Eleanor McMillen Brown, Sixty Years of Interior Design