Van Day Truex Quotes

Remember, color is not just color, but mood, temperature and structure.

In design, Mother Nature is our best teacher.

Training the eye is the most important way to gain an appreciation and understanding of good design in busienss management.

Interiors speak! Rooms emphasize whether one exists or lives, and there is a great difference between the two!

The easiest approach to any strong color is to use a lot of it, thus unifying a room. However, beware of too many strong colors unless you happen to like living on a battlefield.

Too many bright colors make for congestion. Too many bright colors need, above all, contrast in value, to eliminate vibration.

There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting.

Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.

Good design is forever.

I wonder if any element of interior design is more personal than color? Nothing can more quicly reveal aspect of personality and character than the choice - or absence - of color.

Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but never rely on something that someone else has done.

Rich colors are typical of a rich nature.

Control, edit and distill.