Annabelle Selldorf Quotes

There are certain parts of the home that I think embellishment feels cozy and inviting. Then there are other environments, for example, the living room, where I don't have a ton of items on the table.

My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.

First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.

I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.

White paint is my marble.

I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.

I love color. When I paint, I use a lot of color. I love art that has a vibrancy of color and compositions. I adore the Impressionists, and I'm influenced strongly by them as a self-taught artist.

There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow.

I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other... complement each other as a man and a woman do.

Color cannot stand alone.

Albert Durer, the famous painter, used to say he had no pleasure in pictures that were painted with many colors, but in those which were painted with a choice simplicity. So it is with me as to sermons.

Usually I'm thinking about the palette. I'm thinking about the color for the most part, then I'll start thinking about composition and movement.

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.

White must be the lightest color in a picture.

No Separation! We all bleed the same color! #ceasefire #peaceinthemiddleeast #livingforlove

My favorite color is you.

Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

White does not exist in nature.

I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words.

One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love.

There's the excitement of adding color, which I didn't know anything about until 1997 or so, when I did my first picture book. So, the kid's book in particular have been exciting for me because it forced me to go back to the work I loved as a young boy reading Sunday's supplements and comics in the Sunday papers when I was six, seven, eight, nine. And number of which have been in wonderful collections, beautifully reproduced.