Marc Newson Quotes (36 Quotes)


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

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

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

    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.

    I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.


    Yeah, just designing stuff, but I don't think there's any big difference between chairs, cars, jewelry or anything. It's all design.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.

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

    I approach design in a fairly subliminal way which is lucky because I don't have time to think about it too much.

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

    The process is always the same, it doesn't really matter what the object is, whether it's a prototype or whether it's for production,

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

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

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

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

    My life style in a sense is kind of private.

    It was a crazy dream, a dream that I never really thought I would be able to realize. Oddly enough it took an art gallery in Paris to make that possible rather than the aviation industry. It really was Boy's Own stuff.

    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.

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

    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.

    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.

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

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

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

    But if you are an artist then you don't have to just make pictures on canvas. It's just about expression and expressing yourself.

    If I can feel freedom then I can create.

    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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