Broken Quote by William Morris

When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to.

— Tana French

I still believe pattern fascinates on its own. And three-sevenths of a pattern, or even a smaller fragment, can fascinate still more--get us really…

— Samuel R. Delany

Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed…

— Olivier Theyskens

don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous.

— Elsie de Wolfe

It is only my eye that has helped me. I am still hopeless with that thing called a scale ruler. I love color, but…

— Sister Parish

The designs are more about the whole thing rather than the details, and if I were to do the big shapes I do, color…

— Gareth Pugh

If a building makes us light up, it is not because we see order; any row of file cabinets is ordered. What we recognize…

— Jonathan Hale

You may concentrate on appearances all through the rest of your house, but in the bedroom comfort should be supreme. I think that bedrooms…

— Dorothy Draper

Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.

— Gregory Bateson

It is possible to make buildings by stringing together patterns, in a rather loose way. A building made like this, is an assembly of…

— Christopher Alexander

“Most [Shetland patterns] are fairly small and simple, as textile patterns go. Almost all are symmetrical, with eight smaller parts. As a result, most…

— Sheila McGregor

What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find that they…

— David Adjaye