Ifs Quote by Nancy Lancaster Download Open image “If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.” — Nancy Lancaster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Interior design Lifeless Museums Perfect Pieces Rooms
Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum. — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
What if everything in a museum is crap? It's entirely possible; it's not the end of the world. — David Salle Copy Share Image
The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives;… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If the standard for art is the decency of its creators, we're going to have a lot of empty museums. — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
I think that you can treat a classic like a museum piece -stuffed and mounted- or you can make it a living, breathing narrative… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
Scale is of prime importance and I think that oversized scale is better than undersized scale. — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It is a… — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
In choosing a colour one must realize that it changes in different aspects. — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
I've always liked a formal layout and informal planting," she explained. "First get the structure right, like the bones in a face, then plant… — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
How lucky I've been to live in such beautiful places and able to make them as I dreamed. I've been lucky. I've adored my… — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
I had learnt from going to Houghton that to make a room quiet, to make it harmonious, you never wanted to have only one… — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and… — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points. — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination… — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own…style. Conversely, to put very fine pieces of… — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place. — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
