#things

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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

— Marc Newson

#i #interested #making #more #much

I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories. ↗

— Marc Newson

#little #little things #lot #memories #objects

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

— Marc Newson

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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

#asked #different #environments #experiencing #i

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

#art school #chairs #design #ended #how

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

— Marc Newson

#different #different things #know #make #people

I have mixed feelings about those sorts of things. When I see it done by interesting young people, I think it's very valid. But when established photographers, people in their forties, copy me and get a lot of money, well, I find that to be very stupid. ↗

— Helmut Newton

#copy #done #established #feelings #find

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#buildings #egypt #grasp #greece #i

Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before. ↗

— Wayne Newton

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