Marc Newson Quotes
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My life style in a sense is kind of private.
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I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.
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You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.
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If you can just be yourself, then you have to be original because there's no one like you.
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I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.
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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.
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I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.
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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.
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I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.
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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.
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You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.
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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.
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You know like it has its own personality, its own character.
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People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
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I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.
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If I can feel freedom then I can create.
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And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.
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In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.
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To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.
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So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.
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I don't like to make my life like a book.
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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.
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I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.
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But to me, to be original is to be yourself.