Welcome to our collection of Furniture Quotes, where we celebrate the artistry, functionality, and character that furniture brings to our living spaces. Furniture is more than just a practical necessity; it’s an expression of style, personality, and culture. From timeless classics to modern marvels, the pieces we choose to adorn our homes with often speak volumes about who we are and what we value.
Throughout history, furniture has played a central role in shaping the aesthetics and ambiance of interior spaces. Whether it’s a meticulously crafted antique table passed down through generations or a sleek, contemporary sofa that defines a minimalist living room, each piece has its own story to tell. Our curated selection of quotes reflects the enduring allure and significance of furniture in our lives, offering insight, inspiration, and appreciation for the craftsmanship and design that goes into creating these essential elements of our daily surroundings.
So, whether you’re an interior design enthusiast seeking inspiration for your next project or simply someone who appreciates the beauty of well-crafted furniture, we invite you to explore our collection of Furniture Quotes below. Feel free to copy, share, or use these quotes to add a touch of elegance and sophistication to your space, whether it’s through decorative prints, social media posts, or personal reflections on the role of furniture in our lives.
The elements that create glamour are not specific styles – bias-cut gowns or lacquered furniture – but more general qualities: grace, mystery, transcendence. To the right audience, Halle Berry is more glamorous commanding the elements as Storm in the X-Men movies than she is walking the red carpet in a designer gown. Virginia Postrel
Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze – just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they’re all ‘Made in Italy.’ We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians. Lapo Elkann
Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed. Natalie Morales
I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. Arthur Conan Doyle
Reupholstered furniture can look fabulous. Hilary Farr
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. Henry Ward Beecher
Living in New York after 14 years, I’m such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture. Paige Butcher
I love white linens and walls mixed with antique Victorian furniture. Mary Helen Bowers
At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture. Jonathan Carroll
For the novice furniture collector, buying antiques can seem a rather daunting prospect. Nobody wants to feel that they may not make a wise choice and that ultimately they could be throwing their money away. The main thing is that you should always buy something first and foremost because you like it. David Linley
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn’t got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory. James Howard Kunstler
I like Church furniture. Andres Serrano
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 had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization. Dave Grohl
The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process. Gianfranco Ferre
My theory was that good furniture could be priced so that the man with the flat wallet would be attracted to it, would make a place for it in his spending, and could afford it. Ingvar Kamprad
There’s something special in music about the repetition of playing something where it becomes a home and a fortress and a space that you inhabit, like maybe we could move this little thing here, or rearrange the furniture. You’re so acquainted with every part of it. Adrianne Lenker
I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own. Les Dawson
If I had to choose between clothes and furniture, I’d choose furniture. Julianne Moore
I used to draw and design my own furniture in college but never had the means to build them. Shervin Pishevar
I paid my way through college as a carpenter and a woodworker. So I’ve built the house I live in and most of the furniture that’s in it, and I do a lot of woodworking still. Misha Collins
Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining. Rafael Vinoly
I live in a craftsman house, but I’m a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too. Luke Macfarlane
Even one’s own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There’s nothing ‘natural’ about one’s home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment – we’re living inside commercials. J. G. Ballard
I don’t make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture. Frank Gehry
I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don’t bump into the furniture. Danny Bonaduce
There’s a real hunger to understand where objects come from, how artists show their understanding of materials. And there’s something fascinating about watching people work, whether it’s someone engraving a gun or sewing beautiful clothes together. I know that myself; I’ll make a piece of furniture and feel the wood’s grain talking to me. David Linley
The citric acid in lemon juice makes it perfect for bleaching, disinfecting and cutting through grease. And olive oil is a great alternative to furniture polish. Sheherazade Goldsmith
I’m a very soft-spoken person. I don’t throw furniture. I don’t throw tantrums. Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture. Spencer Tracy
My parents did not pay a cent for my education; they didn’t give me a car or furniture – I did that 100% on my own. I had to pay back a lot. Constance Wu
I always begin a room with the rug; it is literally the foundation of the space. I then go on to the furniture. Lee Radziwill
As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food. Danny Bonaduce
Give me something to assemble, I won’t look at the directions, I’ll try to figure it out by myself. It’s why I love Ikea furniture. Dave Grohl
In retrospect, I have come to recognise just how astounding my mother was during our childhood. She kept a woodwork shop and made beautiful furniture, as well as raising the pair of us in a society dominated by men. There really is nothing like war to reveal the power of patriarchy, but she always retained her independence. Alexandra Fuller
The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It’s good to have an influence. Olivier Theyskens
By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards – new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic – symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture – became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties. Peter York
Well, 9/11 made me think about the towers, and the fact that I lived in New York for a long time, while they were being built. In fact, I had a studio that was ripped out, along with the whole neighborhood, to put the towers in. I saw them go up. I lived with them, running past them in the morning. And they were like part of my furniture. Mordicai Gerstein
In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture. Stephen Gardiner
Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When I decided to go to L.A. I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In the first two weeks I got three movies. I was so excited I had all my furniture shipped out from New York. Estella Warren
I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere – the furniture, the books, the food, even the cutlery. So I learned very early to appreciate the value of design and the value of architecture. Neri Oxman
The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture. Donald Judd
A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can’t stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can’t live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff – mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books. Frank Gehry
I don’t want to play father roles. And I use father roles figuratively for roles that are just hanging around… don’t want to be a piece of furniture in films. Rishi Kapoor
Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to build up and started to doing exhibitions. Marc Newson
The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced – sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot. Arne Glimcher
And I like the idea of change. Because I don’t see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it’s there like a piece of furniture. Minoru Yamasaki
For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn’t do for myself. Michael Graves
I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car. DJ Khaled
Audition is the worst thing. It’s like cleaning furniture in a department store. Udo Kier
I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China. Jung Chang
I want to design jewelry for girls and guys… I’ma spread it out, but I’ma design, probably when I’m just designing furniture and buildings, I’ll probably being the jewelry thing, too. Tyler, The Creator
Furniture should always be comfortable. And always have a piece of art that you made somewhere in the home. Tamara Taylor
The words ‘Space Age’ have a quaint, nostalgic tone – sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching ‘The Jetsons.’ P. J. O’Rourke
To come into my world, I’ve got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I’m asking you to move furniture. We’re making a movie. We’re making it like we’re putting on a play. Lee Daniels
Designing is my hobby. If I didn’t do what I do for a living – at some point when I don’t do this for a living – I’ll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture. Ellen DeGeneres
We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture. Robin Williams
My salary for ‘Splash’ was $350,000. I got about $800,000 for ‘Summer Rental.’ So, yes, I thought, ‘Well, here’s a chance to get some furniture for the house and some clothes for the kids.’ John Candy
The architect who first inspired me to follow this profession was Sir John Soane and his Regency home; well, his three homes, now a museum. The place is like an encyclopedia of paintings, antiquities, furniture, sculptures, and drawings. Anouska Hempel
I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture. Kelly Wearstler
My dad was in furniture for 35 years. He got run out of furniture when everything went to China, went overseas. Manufacturing in the country broke down. Everything left. Eric Church
Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furniture store seemed like a good idea, and it also played into my personal history. Elizabeth Edwards
The worst job I ever had was working nights in the Chrysler Building. I was part of a team of about five guys, and we polished the leather furniture. Gene Hackman
The best thing about having a footballer dad is seeing the game up close. You watch him train, then go home and practice what you’ve seen in the front room, rearranging the furniture. Thiago Alcantara
I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture. Kenny Leon
I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew. Tim Conway
Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what’s been done, what’s been superseded, what’s so much part of the furniture it’s practically part of the fabric now, what’s become no more than a joke… and so on. It’s just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research. Iain Banks
Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given. Todd Gitlin
When I was writing ‘Kitchen Confidential,’ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car. Anthony Bourdain
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. Alfred Newman
Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort. Alexandra Adornetto
Just say the lines and don’t trip over the furniture. Noel Coward
If you’re entering a room for the first time, do it the way you would in life – look around; see how they have the furniture arranged. If your character is meeting another character for the first time, meet them the way you would in life. Charles Nelson Reilly
So if you’re a robot and you’re living on this planet, you can do things that you can’t do in real life – things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive. William Joyce
When Elon was 17 and my daughter was 15, they really wanted to move to Canada, where my family is from. I said no, because I wanted to do a Ph.D. in Johannesburg, and I was getting lots of modeling work there. But Elon and I went over to visit, and while I was gone my daughter sold my home and my car and had a big garage sale with all my furniture. Maye Musk
I’m fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff. Prabal Gurung
They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the ’50s and ’60s is Scandinavian or Milanese. Christian Lacroix
I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up. Barbra Streisand
Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, ‘West Side Story’ incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century. John Lahr
I’m quite enthusiastic about any kind of gadget and app and feature and things that enable me to have a very convenient lifestyle. We buy our groceries on the Internet; I buy furniture, clothes for myself and my kids. Margrethe Vestager
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love. Barbra Streisand
I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture. William Shakespeare
I think the set looks great. It’s kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair. Thom Filicia
I’m a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle. Kelly Wearstler
I’m drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale. Brad Pitt
Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture. Dee Hock
I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It’s called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it’s so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It’s seamless and you don’t see it. Debbie Allen
I think by drawing, so I’ll draw or diagram everything from a piece of furniture to a stage gesture. I understand things best when they’re in graphics, not words. Robert Wilson
My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands – he sang with Bob Crosby’s band – but he had to give up show business when his father died. He had to come back to Montgomery and take over the furniture store. Toni Tennille
I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It’s about space and form and it’s something you can share with other people. Donna Karan
I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture. Frank Lloyd Wright
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. Fran Lebowitz
I had a lot of energy, and my mom decided to look for a place where I can spend the energy, because I was jumping on the couch and furniture, and I was jumping on the top of the things in the house. Nadia Comaneci
When a man has seen the aerodynamic shape of a Caravelle jet at an airport, he doesn’t need aerodynamic furniture. Emilio Pucci
The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother’s house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second. Ingmar Bergman
I’ve always loved great upholstery, and think that a great sofa is one of the most important pieces of furniture in your home. Bobby Berk
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. Benjamin Franklin
All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth – in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world – have not any subsistence without a mind. George Berkeley