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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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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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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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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As advertising blather becomes the nation’s normal idiom, language becomes printed noise. – George Will, quoted in Stephen Donadio, The New York Public Library: Book of Twe

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Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths. – Edgar A. Shoaff

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How big can we get before we get bad? – Jay Chiat

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Our society’s values are being corrupted by advertising’s insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness. – John Fisher, The Plot to Make You Buy, 1968

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The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. Its the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism. – Jean Baudrillard