23 Anouska Hempel Quotes for You to Enjoy

Anouska Hempel

New Zealander Actress

Born: Dec 13, 1941

Every Me People Style Work You

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I love to get on the road, but I also think arriving is such a thrill. Turning up at the train station in Mumbai, for example, to see people hanging off all the wonderful old carriages. It's extraordinary - everyone sitting with their chickens on their laps, moving forward but not going anywhere fast. Anouska Hempel

Love Moving Forward People Wonderful Old Example Think Extraordinary Everyone Station See Thrill Road For Example Also Arriving Off Up Chickens Train Get Sitting Going Hanging Anywhere Moving Turning Laps Forward Fast Mumbai

It was the corner sweet-shop in Australia that first piqued my interest in interior design. I went into this space with a mixture of apprehension and excitement as a child. It was filled, floor to ceiling, with the most incredible rounded glass bowls filled to the brim with bonbons, buttons, and sweets. Anouska Hempel

When building in a place that already has a dominant style, it's important to behave yourself. Look around; refer to what you see. In the mountains above Salzburg, I saw charming chalets and wildflower meadows. The chalets are cozy - I don't do cozy. The meadows are in a soft disarray - I don't do soft, and I don't do disarray. I do order. Anouska Hempel

I'm not an interior decorator; I'm a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you've got big trouble. Anouska Hempel

I'm never short of inspiration. There are always new ideas - and new adventures. Anouska Hempel

Inspiration Never Adventures New Ideas Always New Ideas Short

A house must be bedded in the landscape. They both have to work together. In and out, every view from a window has to be sensational. Every view into the house must be the same to ensure continuity. Anouska Hempel

Work Together Every Ensure Out Must Window Both House Continuity Same Sensational Work Together Landscape View

'It can't be done' is not a phrase I recognize. Anouska Hempel

Recognize Phrase Done

England used to be known for making beautiful things. Then we became the rag trade, known for our street fashions, which were picked up around the world. I want us to be recognized for quality. We have the hands to make the clothes. What we need is the motivation. Anouska Hempel

Beautiful Quality World Clothes Our Recognized Picked Beautiful Things Make Known Became Around Trade Making Were Motivation Up Hands Want Which Then Us Used England Rag Fashions Street Things Need

If I set off to do something, why not do it properly? Otherwise, what's the point? Anouska Hempel

Otherwise Something Properly Point Off Why Why Not Set

Comfort? If a choice has to be made between style and comfort, style wins every time. Anouska Hempel

Time Made Style Every Every Time Wins Between Comfort Choice

I think if you have an eye and the ability and the confidence as a designer, you can turn your hand to anything. Anouska Hempel

You Confidence Think Eye Ability Hand Anything Turn Your Designer

I feel that, historically, the Art Deco period has the most resonance for me. As a person, it has to be the plucky Clara Bow, the heroine of American silent movies of the 1920s. She embodied feminine dressing mixed with men's style. All this then evolved into the exquisite style and simplicity of Coco Chanel. Anouska Hempel

Art Me Simplicity Men Style Resonance Heroine Evolved Embodied Silent Silent Movies Dressing Feel Most Bow Period She Feminine Mixed Historically Person American Movies Then Exquisite Chanel

The building I most admire is the Doges Palace in Venice, both by day and by night. Looking at it from the lagoon, it resembles a floating kilim carpet. I love all the bridges which connect houses, people, gardens and palaces. I also love moats to isolate yourself. A ha-ha for secrecy, as in every English country garden. Anouska Hempel

Love Day Garden Yourself People Country Looking Building Every Secrecy Carpet Admire Both Most Venice Also Houses Isolate Which English Connect Resembles Bridges Floating Gardens Palace Palaces Night

I really should have been a pharaoh - do you know that? Anouska Hempel

You Do You Know Know Been Really Should

You've got to be the best at what you can do - be the best at it! And the best has to be the best; you can't just fiddle around and hope. Anouska Hempel

Hope Best You Around Got Just Fiddle

Unless a design is infused with a personality - and by that, I mean mine or someone else who really understands what design is all about - it will never, ever have any mystery. Anouska Hempel

Personality Will Design Else Unless Mine About Someone Mystery Never Understands Any Mean Really Who Ever

I always like to read something romantic about the place I'm visiting. Anouska Hempel

Visiting About Something Like Read Always Romantic Place

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