Artifact Quote by Henry Petroski

Every innovation makes its appearance as a 'luxury' of the few well-to-do. After industry has become aware of it, the luxury then becomes a…

— Ludwig von Mises

The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow. Every advance first comes into being as the luxury of a few rich people, only…

— Ludwig von Mises

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends

— Coco Chanel

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

— Anais Nin

Luxury is a difficult object to describe - it's been the object of hundreds of years of discussion. We definitely don't need it, but…

— Antoine Arnault

Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary.

— Karl Marx

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Craft takes time, and therefore it is luxury. You cannot do an amazingly well-made garment without taking time—not just the time it takes to…

— Isabel Toledo

Luxury is research in quality. It's quality with no compromise. What does that mean? That you don't think about how much something will cost…

— Pier Luigi Loro Piana

Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is…

— Chuck Klosterman

Invention is the mother of necessity.

— Thorstein Veblen

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.

— Anthony Crosland