Robin Day Quotes

• You’ve got to build a career and a practice.

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• Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.

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• We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement… it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.

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• 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.

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• No one ever contributed anything to my designs.

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• 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.

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• I’ve always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places.

  I’ve always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places.
  pretty much a vegetarian

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• I’m pretty much a vegetarian.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

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• 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.

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• I think and hope there are far more people aware of the need to look after our future.

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• I can’t climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.

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• Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

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• But I think it’s important that things endure.

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• I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn’t endure.

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Robin Day (17)

Birth:	24th October, 1923
Death:	6th August, 2000
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Broadcaster, Commentator

About

Sir Robin Day was a British political broadcaster and commentator. His obituary in The Guardian by Dick Taverne stated that "he was the most outstanding television journalist of his generation.

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