Marc Newson Quotes

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 was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • School
  • Art
  • Design

• My philosophy is to be me.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Me
  • Philosophy

• I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.

  

  Nathalie Kelley
  • Girl
  • Design
  • Colour

• Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Experience
  • American
  • Design

• When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Time
  • School
  • Design

• People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Design
  • Company

• I very rarely wear suits, and only make one or two per season, so it's about wanting exceptional clothes that don't feel stiff. Fabric and garment washing are a big part of my design process for that reason. Everything needs to feel lived-in and comfortable.

  

  Yigal Azrouël
  • Design
  • Process
  • Clothes

• There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • Design
  • More
  • Industrial

• I love designing bridal. I do not follow trends - I design dresses that are relevant to the times.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Design
  • Follow
  • Relevant

• Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.

  

  Victor Papanek
  • Design
  • Responsible
  • Radical

• Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Trying
  • Perfect
  • Design

• I credit my mom with inspiring in me a love of design, matched by her creative problem-solving abilities. This is a woman who could find an old, discarded piece of furniture, bring it home and turn it into something fabulous.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Problem
  • Creative
  • Abilities

• The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Good
  • Job
  • City

• I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Proud
  • Design
  • Projects

• I have high hopes that GIS will become increasingly relevant for landscape architects as we make the tools easier to use for the design process of just inventory and mapping.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • High
  • Design
  • Process

• All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Business
  • Design

• After I left school, where I studied art, photography and textiles at A-level, I started doing an apprenticeship in interior design, but I wasn't really enjoying it very much, so I decided to do something creative, and in 2009, I began blogging.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • School
  • Art
  • Design

• I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Poetry

• Without a doubt, the majority of historical period dramas tend to be told from a certain perspective. At least in America, black people have some visibility in period dramas, although it's usually in the form of slaves or servitude.

  

  David Harewood
  • People
  • America
  • Black

• I talked to Marvel about 'Thor' at one point, but I didn't want to do Thor. It wasn't something I read growing up, really; it wasn't one of the books I loved.

  

  Louis Leterrier
  • Up
  • Growing

• When I was little, I would always try and look into the television screen along the sides. I kept thinking if you looked in there, you could see what was happening off camera.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Thinking

• As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Know
  • Find
  • Possibilities

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

  

  Marc Newson
  • Design