Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by David Linley - Page 2

I make dreams become reality. I think of things that never were and say, 'Why?'

I'm quite well known for wearing polo necks. I get them from John Smedley.

Good design is probably something that has been thoroughly thought through to a point of resolution.

The school I attended, Bedales, was fortunate to have been built by a leading light from the Arts and Crafts Movement in the 1890s. It contained a beautiful library, made originally of green oak and constructed with the help of the children.

Children love making things, but they don't get the same opportunities now as practical subjects seem to be sidelined. I would love to see schools offering much more in the way of practical subjects to let children see what they can do.

People are fed up with mass production.

I would prefer to be called David Linley. No one refers to me as Lord Linley in London. It's an American thing.

Horse Guards is my favourite building in London.

I have always loved wood. Every piece is different. It gets better with age and it has a certain character all of its own.

The year 2006, when I came to Christie's, was a very euphoric time to be part of the art world.

We are not training crafts people as we used to do. We're not giving people the chance to learn. Education has become very academic. There's nothing wrong with academic for some people, but not all.

I'll never forget the moment in 1985 when I was riding my motorbike down the King's Road and I first saw the words David Linley on the sign on my first shop. I nearly came off my bike. It was so incredibly public; I suddenly realised there was to be no stepping away from my work because my name was all over it.

Design is important. I spend much of my working life as a designer. But how can you design for materials if you don't know what they can do? The feel of them, the possibilities, the capabilities? These are things you learn only by working with materials all the time. Frankly, a university degree is not much help in that.

When I left Parnham aged 18, I could easily have ended up twiddling my thumbs in a workshop all week. But I lucked out and found an agent who immediately got me work and before long there was enough demand for my furniture to start a shop.

I was very lucky, my parents were very encouraging, and both my grandmothers. They had exquisite taste.

I over-caffeinate in the morning, herbal tea after lunch and at 7 P.M., it's nice to have a glass of white wine.

Some of my best moments have been in friends' libraries. They give you a sense of quiet, well-being and order that a media room does not.

As a child, I was always interested in woodworking and making things.

Never bring an umbrella to the country - wear a tweed cap.

Indian artists are working with a history that's overwhelming and rich.

I've lived all over London, as I like moving from place to place.

London is a series of villages, really. I like that.

When I would visit my Granny as a little boy, we would play this game of closing our eyes and describing everything around us. The color of a tie. The shade of a cloth. It was really quite a wonderful way to learn how to look, to notice things and to appreciate what is around you.

In the early 1980s, Linley was a cooperative. There were four of us who designed and made cabinets and desk accessories.

Pepys was such a meticulous person that he had little wooden blocks to make all the books on his shelves the same height.

I think there can be no replacement for teaching people how to make things by showing them how to stick two pieces of wood together.

I am not really a football man but I have always supported Chelsea because we lived there. We have been through the lows.

My daughter does sewing, needlepoint and very good drawings. My son plays the piano.

I'm not technically royal.

It's far nicer to congregate around a card table than a television. It takes me back to my childhood, when we'd play family card games like Racing Demon.

My father and I share a passion for how things work, which in my case took the form of schoolboy fascination with machines and mechanical contraptions.

I really do build furniture to be used, you see, to be lived with.

Subodh Gupta works because his artistic vocabulary is firmly rooted in the vernacular of everyday India.

Tod's and Loro Piana are perfect for reading Sunday papers in front of the fire.

My grandmother started my interest in secret doors, trying to find things she lost, and we found an old letter in a great bookcase with a round facade.

I love wood. I love its permanence, its way of changing hue over the years, its way of expanding and contracting, of moving or aging and growing better and more beautiful with time.

A lot of the design courses in schools and colleges don't incorporate very much making, and a lot of the making courses incorporate too much technology and computers.

My parents had this extraordinary circle of friends. My father would be photographing somebody every day, someone from the world of the arts, a politician, a musician, a sportsman.

I'm incredibly boring and logical, so if I have a problem I will try and fix that problem.

Californians are not so precious about their antiques, not so nervous about what others will think if they mix classic with modern, old with new.