Quotes About Materialism

When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.

I do know people who buy these huge houses but I always think, 'What about all that furniture? You're never even going to sit on it!' I don't want to rattle round in a big house.

I guess the Reagan era is defined as the 'I want it all for me, and screw everybody else' era.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

The watch everybody rap about, I have in real life.

For me, luxury isn't just the real thing. It's also fake. Swarovski crystals or real diamonds? It's a game.

You got to realise that when I was 20 years old, I had a house, a Mercedes, a Corvette and a million dollars in the bank before I could buy alcohol legally.

Ive realised that I dont need much. When I was in my 30s, I was like, I want the house, I want the dog, I want the car. But I dont need it. I dont really want it.

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

My sister wants a Rollie. When I buy one now, I gotta buy like five, ten. It's crazy.

We are governed by consumerism and it's terrible when that is all that life is geared to.

That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.

I think the main focus in America is - is basically greed.

We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

Even though most of us love, love, love it when we're flush with cash, and we fantasize about what we'd do with more of it, we'd feel gross saying 'I love money' out loud.

I always tell people, when I was growing up I was really into getting money - I didn't really care about anything else.

Little children love bright, shiny things - and in my experience, most grown-up women aren't very different!

Expenditure can't really guarantee a great experience. I don't even like shopping; I've never bought stuff for myself, and everything I wear are gifts from my brothers, friends and people.

I have more guns than I need and not as many as I want.

All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.

I've always loved clothes, especially handbags and shoes. I'd rather save my money on clothing and wear crap, but have the handbags and shoes.

When I was 14, I remember wanting a Coach bag, and my mother couldn't afford it. I decided at that age that I was going to grow up and get a job so that I could buy as many handbags as I wanted. And no one was ever going to stop me.

People tend to overvalue what belongs to them relative to the value they would place on the same possession or circumstance if it belonged to someone else.

Material things are no replacement for human, emotional love.