Top quotes by Marc Newson

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. Votes: 21

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. Votes: 13

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train. Votes: 11

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. Votes: 11

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. Votes: 10

If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you. Votes: 10

Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again. Votes: 9

I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually. Votes: 9

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

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool. Votes: 8

I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come. Votes: 8

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality. Votes: 7

I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories. Votes: 6

My life style in a sense is kind of private. Votes: 6

I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more. Votes: 5

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture. Votes: 5

But to me, to be original is to be yourself. Votes: 5

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting. Votes: 4

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection. Votes: 4

You know like it has its own personality, its own character. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me. Votes: 4

You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree. Votes: 3

I don't like to make my life like a book. Votes: 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. Votes: 1

You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things. Votes: 1

I don't have any furniture of mine in my room. Votes: 0

I never buy magazines, I never even buy books. Votes: 0

I pre-dated the trend for large watches by about a decade Votes: 0

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them. Votes: 0

I was sort of open to do anything, I was free. Votes: 0

If I can feel freedom then I can create. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies. Votes: 0

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture. Votes: 0

In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture. Votes: 0

My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists Votes: 0

The design industry is really pathetic. Votes: 0