Mark Bradford Quotes

I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.

Because I grew up in such tight spaces, I don't get manicures, pedicures. I'm not into cars, but I am into a fabulous house. I wanted the spiral staircase, clean sheets on the bed, to be able to take a shower.

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

I went to the Home Depot, which was unnecessary. I need to go to the Apartment Depot. Which is just a big warehouse with a whole lot of people standing around saying "We don't have to fix anything."

I was born in 1946, so I was born on the tail end of when everything was deemed important. You made things to last. If you came from a poor family, there was only one can opener.

I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty.

I'm actually very good with Home Depot-handy type of paintwork.

We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things.

I love HGTV. I love working on my house and have really been bit by the 'luxury remodeling' bug. 'Million Dollar Rooms,' 'Million Dollar Listing'... any show that can give me design inspiration, I soak it in and try my hand at it. Home Depot is my second home!

I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

We have allowed ourselves to be defined by our consumption instead of by our ability to move beyond it.

I've always been interested in DIY and home renovation - even from my first student flat. I've always left places better than when I moved in.

A little more than 30 years ago, Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, Pat Farrah and I got together and founded The Home Depot.

The older I get, the less I need. I wear the same jean shorts for the whole week. I'm not running to the store to get the latest bag.

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

I'm not a girl who's into home comforts and luxury.

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

Life is composed of different inventions. I have continued to work at different things and rebuilt my home all by myself. I did it for the sake of satisfaction at doing something.

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I did not think were possible - bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on.

I'm not an interior designer - I'm a normal working mum who wants her house to look good and doesn't need a man to do it for her.

I'm barely at home enough to enjoy the simple lifestyle that I want to live.