The Decoration Of Houses Quotes

“What is originality in art? Perhaps it is easier to define what it is not and this may be done by saying that it is never a willful rejection of what has been accepted as the necessary laws of various forms of art. Thus in reasoning originality relies not in discarding the necessary laws of thought, but in using them to express new intellectual conceptions. In poetry originality consists not in discarding the necessary laws of rhythm but in finding new rhythms within the limits of those laws.”
― Edith Wharton, The Decoration Of Houses

“L'Architecture Françoise. 1727. Briseux, Charles Étienne. L'Art de Bâtir les Maisons de Campagne. Paris, 1743.”
― Edith Wharton, The Decoration of Houses