Marc Newson Quotes

Australian - Designer Born: October 20, 1963

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

Yourself Be Yourself You Be Original

My life style in a sense is kind of private.

Life Style My Life Kind

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

Good Cool Happy Mood Good Mood

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

Yourself Me Be Yourself Be Original

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

Personality Think Design Important

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

History People You Some People

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.

Travel Me Say Things

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

You Feel Important Emotional

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

Me Design Without Away

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

Music Always Film Film Music

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

Architecture People You Design

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

Love Things More Ordinary

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.

Art School Together You

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

Things More Than Them

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.

Friend Doing Furniture Get

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

People You Watches Perfume

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

Free Anything Open Sort

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

Good Design Sometimes Very

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

Personality Character You Know

I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.

Never Buy Books Magazines

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.

Myself Time Light Think

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

Back Three Salt Years

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

Furniture Room Mine Any

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

Life My Life Book Like

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

Memories Space Little Things Little

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

Back Doing More Snowboarding

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