Marc Newson Quotes

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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.
• 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…
• I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.
• I pre-dated the trend for large watches by about a decade
• My life style in a sense is kind of private.
• My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists
• With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch
• The design industry is really pathetic.
• You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.
• I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.
• But to me, to be original is to be yourself.
• 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.
• Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.
• I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.
• You know like it has its own personality, its own character.
• In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.
• I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.
• 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…
• You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.

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