Robin Day Quotations

The only request to the schools was to utilize the money for something other than enrichment, ... We asked the schools to purchase something tangible that the school budget would not cover.

The PTA board is so thrilled to be able to give these funds to the schools. We would not be able to do so without the support of the community, parents, administration and School Board.

No one ever contributed anything to my designs.

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

I was born in High Wycombe, which was a furniture place. And it just seemed inevitable.

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

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 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.

That construction techniques, materials and economics are relevant. Along with that, hopefully, some poetry and pleasantness in terms of looks.

Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.

Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get.

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

This is not some kind of interview panel for state executioner

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.

But I think it's important that things endure.

But I think I'm probably happiest about my work in the contract field: auditoriums of concert halls, stadiums, theatres, stations, airports.

You've got to build a career and a practice.

And I'm very glad to hear it, sir.

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

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

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

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.

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

Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.