Decorators should always remember that letting a client see too many beautiful things is a pitfall.

The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes for an attractive, civilized, meaningful environment, not about fashion or what's in or what's out. This is not an easy job.

Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful.

Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education.

Decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.

Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality.

Decorators should always remember that letting a client see too many beautiful things is a pitfall.