Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Candace Wheeler

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a designer Candace Wheeler.

Last updated on December 3, 2024.

Candace Wheeler, often credited as the "mother" of interior design, was one of America's first woman interior and textile designers. She is noted for helping to open the field of interior design to women, supporting craftswomen, and for encouraging a new style of American design. She founded both the Society of Decorative Art in New York City (1877) and the New York Exchange for Women's Work (1878).

Designer | 1827 - 1923

Source: Wikipedia

One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God.

Candace Wheeler

perpetuity in a home is a blanket for the cold years that come with age.

Candace Wheeler

Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.

Candace Wheeler

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

Candace Wheeler

A great magazine is sort of a net for ability.

Candace Wheeler

If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

Candace Wheeler

And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.

Candace Wheeler

Peace is the wait of the patient soul.

Candace Wheeler

Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside them. Indeed, I came to see that white is not a color in skin any more than in textiles, and if it had not quality, it had no value even for humanity. I saw that color in skin had a certain advantage in strength and warmth as a means of beauty.

Candace Wheeler

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Candace Wheeler

Related Authors