Explore Quotes by Kevin Mccloud

There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.

We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet.

I'm really quite conscious of clothes and the way they fit and don't regret wearing anything. Not even the five-inch stack heels I wore with three-button high-waisters at comprehensive school. Regret is for wimps.

I hate negativity. I hate people who say the phrase 'I hate'. I really don't like the word 'hate.' Dislike, frightened of, terrified of, or yukky - but not 'hate.'

One mustn't mistake bling for excellence, just as one mustn't mistake quiet for mediocre.

The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.

The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.

Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to be able to greenwash their products and feel good.

I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it.

My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.

If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface.

I've forgiven all my enemies - even those who have stolen money from me.

I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.

I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's.

I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political.

I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.

I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.

I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.

I don't want anything that I buy to have done any harm to anyone or anything.

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.