Quotes By Marc Newson

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My life style in a sense is kind of private.

I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.

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

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

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

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

If I can feel freedom then I can create.

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'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

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

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