My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability.

We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.

I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.

I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.

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

I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.

I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.