Marc Newson Quotes

#1. Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.

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#2. I'm always working. Like a lot of creative people I can't switch off. I can't disassociate work from pleasure. My job is my hobby.

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#3. So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.

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#4. Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to build up and started to doing exhibitions.

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#5. I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.

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#6. I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.

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#7. Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again.

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#8. Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.

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#9. With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch

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#10. The design industry is really pathetic.

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#11. I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.

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#12. I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

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#13. You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.

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#14. My life style in a sense is kind of private.

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#15. But to me, to be original is to be yourself.

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#16. Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.

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#17. If I can feel freedom then I can create.

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#18. You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.

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#19. I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

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#20. I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.

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#21. In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.

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#22. If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.

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#23. You know like it has its own personality, its own character.

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#24. I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

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#25. I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.

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#26. I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.

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#27. I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

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#28. I don't like to make my life like a book.

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#29. The fashion industry has an enormous amount to offer in what we do in industrial design because fashion is fast, fashion has its finger on the pulse. There are very few creative industries that work on that rhythm.

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#30. People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

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#31. My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists

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#32. And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.

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#33. I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.

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#34. To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

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#35. If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.

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#36. So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

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#37. If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.

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