Top 35 Marc Newson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “But to me, to be original is to be yourself.”

— Marc Newson

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

— Marc Newson

3. “I’m always working. Like a lot of creative people I can’t switch off. I can’t disassociate work from pleasure. My job is my hobby.”

— Marc Newson

4. “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.”

— Marc Newson

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

— Marc Newson

6. “I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.”

— Marc Newson

7. “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.”

— Marc Newson

8. “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.”

— Marc Newson

9. “The fashion industry has an enormous amount to offer in what we do in industrial design because fashion is fast, fashion has its finger on the pulse. There are very few creative industries that work on that rhythm.”

— Marc Newson

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

— Marc Newson

11. “I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.”

— Marc Newson

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

— Marc Newson

13. “I pre-dated the trend for large watches by about a decade.”

— Marc Newson

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

— Marc Newson

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

— Marc Newson

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

— Marc Newson

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

— Marc Newson

18. “I’m fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.”

— Marc Newson

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

— Marc Newson

20. “The design industry is really pathetic.”

— Marc Newson

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

— Marc Newson

22. “I’m interested in youth culture and popular culture.”

— Marc Newson

23. “I don’t have any furniture of mine in my room.”

— Marc Newson

24. “You know like it has its own personality, its own character.”

— Marc Newson

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

— Marc Newson

26. “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.”

— Marc Newson

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

— Marc Newson

28. “With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch.”

— Marc Newson

29. “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.”

— Marc Newson

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

— Marc Newson

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

— Marc Newson

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

— Marc Newson

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

— Marc Newson

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

— Marc Newson

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

— Marc Newson

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

— Marc Newson

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

— Marc Newson