Alexandra Stoddard Love Quotations

When I'm the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets messy when I'm in the flow. So many houses are so neat.

I think of myself as the little girl Renoir painted with the watering can. I loved the garden colors.

You learn to give up what's not working and surround yourself with things you love - not what's correct or proper.

I love people and care about them, and I felt I had a gift to cheer people up. If I could get into their homes and make their environment more attractive, they'll be happier, and it would be very rewarding for me.

We can finish a house, but never a home. Once you fall in love with a house, you find continual pleasures in fixing it up and making innovations that satisfy your creature's comforts.

I have my clothes made in Hong Kong, but I love Shangai Tang in New York.

I urge readers to experience things that they love and give up things that are not working.