Robin Day Quotes
"Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get."
- Robin Day
(Related: Work)
"Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair."
- Robin Day
(Related: Successful)
"We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards."
- Robin Day
"There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable."
- Robin Day
(Related: Energy, Responsibility)
"No one ever contributed anything to my designs."
- Robin Day
"Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood."
- Robin Day
(Related: Idea, Advertising, Evil)
"I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function."
- Robin Day
(Related: Work, First)
"I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places."
- Robin Day
(Related: Time)
"You've got to build a career and a practice."
- Robin Day
(Related: Career, Practice)
"I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure."
- Robin Day
"I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about."
- Robin Day
(Related: Machines, Man, Talking)
"I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature."
- Robin Day
(Related: Nature, Rain)
"I think and hope there are far more people aware of the need to look after our future."
- Robin Day
(Related: People, Hope, Future)
"I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak."
- Robin Day
(Related: Now)
"Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time."
- Robin Day
(Related: Time, Morality, Commerce)
"But I think it's important that things endure."
- Robin Day
"I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true."
- Robin Day