Elsie de Wolfe Quotes about Design

All Elsie de Wolfe Quotes Design quotes Home House Writing

Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

Simplicity, Design, Interior Design

Penny Sparke, Elsie De Wolfe (2005). “Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration”, Acanthus PressLlc

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

Design, Virtue, Cardinals

Elsie De Wolfe (1974). “After all”, Ayer Co Pub

My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability.

Design, Interior Design

Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.

Design, Use, Accepting

Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.

Design, Pockets, Interior Design

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.

Writing, Design, Style