Simplicity, suitability and proportion.
I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.
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.
The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.
don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous.
It is not chic to be too chic.