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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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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design
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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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The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. – Peter Drucker

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It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have. – B. Earl Puckett, quoted in Stephen Donadio, The New York Public Library: Book of

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Advertising

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. – George Orwell

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The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. – Louis Kronenberger

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Advertising

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