Marc Newson

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

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

“I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.”

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

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

“If I can feel freedom then I can create.”

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

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

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

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

“My life style in a sense is kind of private.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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