Marc Newson Quotes
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My life style in a sense is kind of private.
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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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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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You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.
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I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.
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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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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 that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.
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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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You know like it has its own personality, its own character.
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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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To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.
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If I can feel freedom then I can create.
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People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
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I don't like to make my life like a book.
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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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I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.
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I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.
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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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But to me, to be original is to be yourself.