Quotes from Marc Newson

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

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.

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.

With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch

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

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

I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists