Quotes by Robin Day

• I'm pretty much a vegetarian.
• Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get.
• Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.
• We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.
• 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.
• No one ever contributed anything to my designs.
• 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.
• I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.
• I've always walked and climbed; spent a lot of time in the arctic and places.
• You've got to build a career and a practice.
• I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.
• 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.
• 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.
• I think and hope there are far more people aware of the need to look after our future.
• I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.
• Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.
• But I think it's important that things endure.
• 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.