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Quote by Stephen Bayley
As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming clo

As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth. – Stephen Bayley

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I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive. – Stephen Bayley

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Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsburys is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting. – Stephen Bayley

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Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers – Stephen Bayley

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If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction. – Arthur Bloch

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Live to live and you will learn to live. – Proverb

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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it. – Proverb

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The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it cant be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it. – Anon.

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