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

Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating.

I have always believed that the more educated the clients are, the easier they are to work with. Clients with a knowledge of decorating, and an ability to articulate what they want from the finished project, make the designer's job easier.

An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.

Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s wellbeing.

So many young decorators are trying to reinvent the wheel, and the results are sometimes very dubious. They're striving to do things that have never been done before. Quite often it is done without authority, without knowledge, and without a background in taste. They need to be educated about the past, and they need a richer vocabulary.

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