John Cotton Quotes

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

I love to go shopping at Target. They have so much stuff there, you can buy almost anything, it's really amazing.

The best museum is Bloomingdales.

What I have learned about museum buildings is that buildings have to have iconic presentations. The position of the art museum vis-a-vis other civic buildings needs to be hierarchal in the community. It has to be equal to the library and the courthouse.

I'd live in a museum if I could. I used to spend hours and hours in the Museum of Modern Art.

Customers who have to come back and spend, or customers who just don't want the hassle of leaving - those are the ones who are most worth attracting.

People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?'

Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are reading to go buy something.

There are many museums dedicated to technology, artistic endeavors, music, and that sort of thing. From that perspective, I think games really do have a place as a kind of collaborative art or a synthesis of all these various aspects into a whole, and that, in itself, can be perceived as art.

If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.

We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.

If you are already familiar with a brand, buying online is fast, convenient, and probably the way forward.

Curbside is primed to fundamentally change the way people shop - by creating a seamless way for consumers to access products from local merchants - by successfully developing complex location and inventory technology.

For present buying, I go to Harrods because there are great personal shoppers, who point me in the right direction.

Museums, I love museums.

There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

There is no reason why the Louvre should be your favourite gallery just because it has the grandest collections in France, any more than Kew should necessarily be a favourite garden because it has the largest assemblage of plants, or Tesco your chosen shop because it has the widest variety of canned beans.

It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere.

Museums, free libraries, and art galleries have this in common: that they are each expected to fulfill two purposes which are somewhat incongruous, and require to be pursued by different methods and with different appliances. Each of these institutions is expected to minister to the wants both of trained students and of the untrained and ignorant public; and the demands of these two classes of persons are so diverse that they must be provided for separately

Customers want high-quality food, good service, and good store experience, and most retailers fail to deliver on those.

In an urban area, you're not going to be an hour away from another post office.

I always loved the retail entertainment sector, like FAO Schwartz, where it's a little more exciting than just going into a little corner deli candy place.