materialism Quotes

In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.

The true cost to the world of a burger is far greater than the money you hand over to buy it.

Material things are delightful, but they're not important.

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

I'll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody.

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.