Robin Day Quotes

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

— 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

“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

“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

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

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

— Robin Day

“But I think it's important that things endure.”

— Robin Day

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

— Robin Day

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

— Robin Day

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

— Robin Day

I'm pretty much a vegetarian.

— Robin Day

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

— Robin Day

“No one ever contributed anything to my designs.”

— Robin Day

“Well the most successful of course was this Polypropylene chair.”

— Robin Day

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

— Robin Day

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

— 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

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

— Robin Day