Quote by Stephen Bayley
Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board whi

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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Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism? – Stephen Bayley

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architecture
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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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Travel
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The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny mans ability to adapt to changing circumstances. – Stephen Bayley

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Tradition
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Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. – Marshall McLuhan, introduction to Wilson Bryan Key, Subliminal Seduction: Ad Med

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Advertising

We read advertisements to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready — even eager — to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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Advertising

So long as there’s a jingle in your head, television isn’t free. – Jason Love

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Advertising

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. – William Bernbach

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Advertising

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A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with “a sort of greedy enjoyment,” as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was “saturated with the bouquet of silence.” – Holbrook Jackson

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