Marc Newson famous quotes

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

#Being Yourself #Just Be Yourself #Like You

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

#Europe #Rooms #Furniture

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.
-- Marc Newson

#Jobs #People #Creative

With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch
-- Marc Newson

#Simple #Design #Dresses

The design industry is really pathetic.
-- Marc Newson

#Design #Pathetic

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

#Agreement #People #Stuff

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

#Ordinary #Ordinary Things #Taxi

But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
-- Marc Newson

#Being Yourself

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

#Emotional #Giving #Important

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

#Jobs #Looks #Use

My life style in a sense is kind of private.
-- Marc Newson

#Style #Kind #Life Style

I pre-dated the trend for large watches by about a decade
-- Marc Newson

#Watches #Trends

I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.
-- Marc Newson

#Technology #Process #Materials

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.
-- Marc Newson

#Art #School #Design

I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.
-- Marc Newson

#Book #Europe #Magazines

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

#Years #Europe #Three

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.
-- Marc Newson

#Culture #Youth #Popular Culture

If I can feel freedom then I can create.
-- Marc Newson

#Feels

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

#Memories #Space #Littles

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

#Design #Going Away #Stills

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.
-- Marc Newson

#Thinking #Light #Design

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

#People #Design #Needs

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

#Book

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

#Europe #Good Mood #Mood

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

#Europe #Design

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

#Europe #People #Different

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

#Thinking #Design #Personality

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.
-- Marc Newson

#Inspiration #Different #Environment

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

#Australia #Surfing #Culture

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

#School #Europe #Design

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

#Dream #Snowboarding #Play

You know like it has its own personality, its own character.
-- Marc Newson

#Character #Europe #Personality

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

#Strong #Japan #Europe

I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.
-- Marc Newson

#Europe

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.
-- Marc Newson

#Europe #Magazines #Exhibitions

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

#Europe #Film Music #Film