Stephen Bayley Quotes

• A veces es más fácil mandar hacer muebles que encontrar cosas.

  Stephen Bayley

  Furniture, Sometimes, Easier

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• Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

  Stephen Bayley

  Reality, Style, Taste

  Stephen Bayley (2000). “General Knowledge”, Booth-Clibborn

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• El supuesto debe ser que quienes sólo pueden ver valor en la tradición, o en versiones de ella, niegan la capacidad del hombre para adaptarse a circunstancias cambiantes.

  Stephen Bayley

  Men, Assumption, Tradition

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• That's one of the things about getting older isn't it? You suddenly realise that you are what you set out to be. And there are no role models any more.

  Stephen Bayley

  Role Models, Getting Older, Roles

  "Stephen Bayley interview: prize exhibit". Interview With Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2000.

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• While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.

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  Effort, Challenges, Century

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• You must never aspire to 'finish' a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it's an evolutionary process.

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  House, Process, Aspire

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• You are what you pretend to be.

  Stephen Bayley

  Stephen Bayley, Roger Mavity (2011). “Life's a Pitch: How to Sell Yourself and Your Brilliant Ideas”, p.161, Random House

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• Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the new is the same as acquiring value... If the purchase of a new garment coincides with the wearing out of an old one, then obviously there is no fashion. If a garment is worn beyond the moment of its natural replacement, there is pauperization. Fashion flourishes on surplus, when someone buys more than he or she needs.

  Stephen Bayley

  Fashion, Expression, Needs

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• La moda es primitiva en su insistencia en el exhibicionismo, que se marchita en el aislamiento. El desfile de pasarela, con su incandescente bombo y platillo, es su apoteosis. Es una versión industrializada de los festivales paganos de renovación, una reunión ritual de entendidos y mimados en un desfile iluminado de pulcritud elegante. Al final de cada despliegue estacional, se encomienda a un sacerdocio que lleve a las masas las noticias de los presagios.

  Stephen Bayley

  Fashion, Hype, Gathering

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• It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating.

  Stephen Bayley

  Shoes, Insecurity, Mechanic

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• No me importaría que alguien me lanzara granadas de mano, pero tener que poner a cero el temporizador de la grabadora de vídeo me pone a escupir sangre.

  Stephen Bayley

  Blood, Hands, Mind

  "Stephen Bayley interview: prize exhibit". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2000.

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• I just don't understand how you can not be concerned about your appearance. From time to time I'm vilified as the person who cares about the look of a teapot - and it's not that I believe my taste is superior , I just can not believe that other people don't care.

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  Believe, People, Who Cares

  "Stephen Bayley interview: prize exhibit". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2000.

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• No me interesan especialmente las antigüedades ni los objetos antiguos, pero me gusta que las cosas respondan a una estética determinada.

  Stephen Bayley

  Antiques, Certain, Interest

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• El diseño de interiores es una parodia del proceso arquitectónico y una espantosa condena de la credulidad, la impotencia y la credulidad de los consumidores más formidables: los ricos.

  Stephen Bayley

  Design, Rich, Process

  Stephen Bayley (1991). “Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things”, Pantheon

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• 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.

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  Art, Communication, Technology

  Stephen Bayley (2000). “General Knowledge”, Booth-Clibborn

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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.

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  Character, Planning, Failing

  "Stephen Bayley interview: prize exhibit". Interview With Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2000.

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• My wife and I both love cooking - I am an advanced male - so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.

  Stephen Bayley

  Wife, Cooking, Males

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• Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims about your attitudes to or achievements in the carnal and financial arenas can be disputed only by your lover and your financial advisers, whereas by making statements about your taste you expose body and soul to terrible scrutiny. Taste is a merciless betrayer of social and cultural attitudes. Thus, while anybody will tell you as much (and perhaps more than) you want to know about their triumphs in bed and at the bank, it is taste that gets people's nerves tingling.

  Stephen Bayley

  Sex, Attitude, Simple

  Stephen Bayley (2000). “General Knowledge”, Booth-Clibborn

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• It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating. If a woman wears a high-heeled shoe it changes the apparent musculature of the leg so that you get an effect of twanging sinew, of tension needing to be released. Her bottom sticks out like an offering. At the same time, the lofty perch is an expression of vulnerability, she is effectively hobbled and unable to escape. There is something arousing about this declaration that she is prepared to sacrifice function for form.

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  Fashion, Sacrifice, Offering

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• Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.

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  Artist, Boards, Condescending

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• Si has nacido en Gran Bretaña después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, ves una atmósfera continua de decadencia, moral y económica y política.

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  War, Political, Atmosphere

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• I have put [the word] "discoveries" in inverted commas because scientific results, perhaps as much at least as artistic achievements, are a product of contemporary taste, driven by momentary appetites rather than eternal verities.

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  Discovery, Achievement, Taste

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