Author Profile
Marcel Wanders
1963 • Dutch • Designer
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Showing 61 quotesI have 60 people working for me in my studio. That's luxury if you ask me. I just dream. Tell those people that I want a certain thing. Those people will then invest days, and sometimes months, in bringing that idea to life. What more could you ask for? That's luxury for me.— Marcel Wanders
If I have any basic motivation, it's to inspire people to make their life a masterpiece.— Marcel Wanders
A lot of my work is intelligent, a lot of the work is beautiful, but I make ugly things, too.— Marcel Wanders
A lot of companies are able to do without design. A few companies are able to do without creativity. A very few. Creativity is crucial to your business.— Marcel Wanders
I think what makes me different is that... I am comfortable with expressing my vulnerability. I think designers often want to just put the loveable ideas out there. Ones that are imaginative but not very introspective. It is more rare for a designer to explore his or her disappointments and moments of disillusion and doubt.— Marcel Wanders
I'm not the type of person who feels bad about things before. I choose what to do at the moment, and I have a very good reason for it; otherwise, I don't do it. If later my feelings change, I should celebrate now by being more wise, not feel bad about before.— Marcel Wanders
Humor has the tendency to be funny once. If I tell you a joke, we're going to have a big laugh. But the second time I tell the joke, it's going to be a bit strange, and the third time you're going to ask if there's something wrong with me. So I am very cautious with jokes, but there is a lightness in my work.— Marcel Wanders
I think architects design outside in. Or they design basically outside. They don't get in the building anymore.— Marcel Wanders
When you look at the work you do every day, you do see things. But if you look at the work you did for 25 years, suddenly you start to get a more complete picture.— Marcel Wanders
Luxury is not about the things that you own. It is about something that reflects your personal values, something that shows the choices that you have made in your life.— Marcel Wanders