Top 33 Wallpaper Quotes

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

In a small powder room, the inclination is to go with a light wall color. My trick is to do the opposite – such as a patterned wallpaper or a deep color on the walls. It’s more interesting and makes a design statement.

‘Basic Black with Pearls’ contains overt references to Virginia Woolf and covert ones to feminist classics like Kate Chopin’s ‘The Awakening’ and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper.’ The scholar Ruth Panofsky, who writes extensively about Weinzweig, sees echoes of George Eliot.

I had a couple of million dollars’ worth of… stock once. And now it’s not worth much more than wallpaper. I guess I just wasn’t born to be rich.

The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.

Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown’s gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.

The flukey part of it is, back in the early days, I had that guitar decorated with all kinds of crap wallpaper, ‘Flower Power’ – then that got all shaved off. And during the course of cleaning the bass up again, some of the wood got shaved down, and it probably became a lighter body than the stock factory model.

There are designers who say, ‘Oh! I see wallpaper and blue carpet.’ I usually start by knocking down walls. ‘You thought you just needed some new drapes? Well, guess what: That wall’s gotta go.’

In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you’re really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.

What I loved about ‘The Beverly Hillbillies’ was that it was about family love and growth and understanding. The riches-to-rags premise is just the wallpaper.

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

I am a religious person and after discussions with my interior decorator, she gave me digital art wallpaper cut-outs of Radha Krishna and Bal Gopal in my living room.

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Daleks scared the hell out of me, to the point where I wouldn’t go round to another boy’s house because he had Dalek wallpaper in his bedroom.

I’ve been here for 19 years, so West Ham fans are bored with seeing me. It’s like my wife, who changes the wallpaper every three years because she gets tired of it.

I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.

I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there’s a challenge each time.

My childhood bedroom had wallpaper that was printed with clouds and rainbows.

I definitely start early and keep items in mind throughout the year for key people in my life. I love wrapping everyone’s gifts in hand-painted wallpaper sheets, which gives the gift extra love.

If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the 18th century. Throughout history, notable, established families have always tried to link to the 18th century.

Whenever I write for television, I plan the story on whiteboard wallpaper in my office, using a system created by the American writer Dan Harmon. It’s remarkably simple: a character wants something; they enter a new world and adapt to it; they get what they want, re-enter the old world and change.

Because I’ve been around forever and ever, like wallpaper, people ask me for secrets… it’s the same with my skin care range; that’s out of necessity. As soon as I saw the first signs, I bought everything in the market.

Academics aren’t paid very much, but as a single gay man I was never badly off. You don’t have kids. You don’t have a non-working wife’s insatiable demand for shoes or wallpaper.

I have the largest collection of Hulk memorabilia in the world – everything from toilet paper, wallpaper, bicycles – all boxed up at my house in Northern California. I’ve had it for so long, I think it might be time to sell it.

I like animals. I like people who like animals. I hate people who love animals to the point they lose their sense of reason. I’m talking the ‘my computer wallpaper is my dog,’ ‘I hang a Christmas stocking for my cat’ crowd.

I should be in an old people’s home now, counting the roses in the wallpaper. It’s a good life, isn’t it?

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

If I were in a room full of people, I’d rather be the person who is more interesting than the one who is wallpaper.

I really value the skill and sensitivity of my collaborators, and I am really interested in – perhaps more so than if I was a male director – the hair, makeup and the textures of the fabric and the wallpaper.

I am an all-surface wallpaper man that retired to become a printer.

The Hewitt sisters were these amazing – both sort of philanthropists and dilettantes who went out and single-handedly collected all of these of-the-moment designs in wallpaper and textiles and in graphic design in order to teach people about design.

I’m good in the garden and I can do the cooking, ironing and cleaning, but I can’t hang wallpaper or paint.

Picasso took scraps of wallpaper, and instead of using paint and a brush, he used all the existing elements which he made his artwork with.