Rem Koolhaas Quotes

But before we can radically reshape the world, we need to shop.

I shop, therefore I am.

Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.

To travel is to shop.

Modern man, if he dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world, showing new things and gadgets, and himself having plenty of money with which to buy them.

Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.

I love consumerism, TV culture, shopping malls. There's nothing I'd ever buy, but I like being there. It's wacky.

We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really.

In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what we consume.

I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it's also an affirmation of faith in their country.

I shop more than most women.

In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.

Most human beings are defined in terms of their capacity to consume.

When I'm not feeling good about how I look, I figure if I just buy the right piece of clothing, I'll feel all right.

We shop out of boredom, for release, for excitement, for a sense of achievement, for a sense of control over our unruly existences. And every so often, we shop because we need something to wear.

The emptier a person's heart is, the more he or she needs to buy, own, and consume.

If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.

The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.

I walked inside Macy’s and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for themselves. Without the instant gratification of a self-aimed purchase, everyone walked around in the tactical stupor of the financially obligated.

Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.

I'm always buying gadgets, especially at airports.

I actually hate shopping.

You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, 'You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.'

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.