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Top 15 Stephen Bayley Quotes (2025 Update)

Stephen Bayley Quote: “You are what you pretend to be.”

1. “You are what you pretend to be.”

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Stephen Bayley Quote: “Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers – the rich.”

2. “Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers – the rich.”

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Stephen Bayley Quote: “The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man’s ability to adapt to changing circumstances.”

3. “The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man’s ability to adapt to changing circumstances.”

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Stephen Bayley Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Stephen Bayley Quote: “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.”

5. “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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Stephen Bayley Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Stephen Bayley Quote: “If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.”

7. “If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.”

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Stephen Bayley Quote: “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.”

8. “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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Stephen Bayley Quote: “I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.”

9. “I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.”

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Stephen Bayley Quote: “My wife and I both love cooking – I am an advanced male – so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.”

10. “My wife and I both love cooking – I am an advanced male – so we argue about who gets to rustle up dinner.”

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Stephen Bayley Quote: “It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.”

11. “It is sometimes easier to have furniture made than to find things.”

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Stephen Bayley Quote: “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.”

12. “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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Stephen Bayley Quote: “Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.”

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

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Stephen Bayley Quote: “You must never aspire to ‘finish’ a house, you can merely hope to start it, and from then on it’s an evolutionary process.”

14. “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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Stephen Bayley Quote: “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.”

15. “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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Stephen Bayley Quote: “I wouldn’t mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.”

16. “I wouldn’t mind someone lobbing hand grenades at me, but having to reset the timer on the video recorder puts me into a blood-spitting frenzy.”

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Stephen Bayley Quote: “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.”

17. “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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