Small Rooms Quotes

To go back to architecture, whats organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.

If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.

Without imagination, you live in a small room with the windows closed. Imagination opens the windows and shows us landscapes, horizons that we would not otherwise perceive…I want education to empower people to see possibility.

In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.

Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns.

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?

In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really, except that everything is done with so much ritual and ceremony that a banal daily event is transformed into a moment of communion with the universe.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man

Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.

I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up behind my back.

To have a 9-foot sofa in a small room can be kind of treacherous.

Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.

Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we turn about The bare chimney is gone black out Because the work had finished in that flare.

Color is a major element in scale. A small room can have a larger look by the use of closely related values, hues, and intensity. A large room can be made to look smaller by marked contrasts of color and value, hue, and intensity. Value is one of the most important elements. Whether light or dark, little value contrast makes for unity, and sharper contrast makes for stronger punctuation.

An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.

Oddly enough, white is a dead tone in a small room. Choosing something with a more medium tone will make the space feel larger.