J. P. Morgan Quotes

I photograph wealth.

I'm like an expensive menu... you can look but you can't afford!

Essentially, Louis XIV created exclusivity. If we look at how we live our lives today, many of us are members of clubs or gyms. We search out exclusivity. He created the world of fashion at Versailles.

Luxury is not a $4,000 T-shirt - that's just an expensive item, the same as if a can of Coca-Cola cost $5,000.

Divas need their furs!

I'm like a menu at an expensive restaurant; you can look at me, but you can't afford me.

You don't buy luxury to enter a community, but to set yourself apart from others.

Affluence means influence.

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them!

Money doesn't buy class.

In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere.

You have no idea how much it costs to make someone look this cheap,

When I go see a basketball game, I'm always in the front row. I always have a table at a restaurant; I never have trouble getting a taxi.

Luxury takes many forms nowadays, but one thing doesn't change: luxury is about desire and the ability to create dreams.

Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

Buying a Ferrari is like buying Château Pétrus if you like fine wines. It's the safe choice.

There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.

It's very expensive to be me.

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

From the elitism of luxury to the democracy of beauty.

For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.