Robin Day Quotes
- Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.
- I think and hope there are far more people aware of the need to look after our future.
- I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.
- No one ever contributed anything to my designs.
- We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.
- Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.
- But I think it's important that things endure.
- I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.
- I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud;…
- I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've…
- I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.
- I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't…
- I'm pretty much a vegetarian.
- I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places.
- Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But…
- There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and…
- Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get.
- You've got to build a career and a practice.