Marc Newson Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Marc Newson:
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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You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.
~Marc Newson
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I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.
~Marc Newson
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I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.
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I don't like to make my life like a book.
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People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
~Marc Newson
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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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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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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.
~Marc Newson
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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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I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.
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If I can feel freedom then I can create.
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Now I'm doing more snowboarding but I have to get back into surfing again.
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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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To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.
~Marc Newson
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In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.
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I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.
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I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.
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If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.
~Marc Newson
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And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.
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Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.
~Marc Newson
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If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.
~Marc Newson
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I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.
~Marc Newson
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I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.
~Marc Newson
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I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.
~Marc Newson
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I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.
~Marc Newson
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You know like it has its own personality, its own character.
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You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.
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My life style in a sense is kind of private.
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But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
~Marc Newson
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I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.
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