Explore Quotes by Marc Newson

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

You know that's history, that's why some people say that my stuff is retro, but I don't agree.

The design industry is really pathetic.

I pre-dated the trend for large watches by about a decade

I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.

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

My life style in a sense is kind of private.

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

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.

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

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.

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.

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

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

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.