Marcel Wanders quotes

“Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason.”
-- Marcel Wanders

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“Design is a tool that allows us to reach out and inspire, to touch others and help make lives magic and wonderful”
-- Marcel Wanders

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“Here to create an environment of love, live with passion, and make our most exciting dreams come true”
-- Marcel Wanders

Source : "MAC Marcel Wanders Collection". Q&A, www.temptalia.com. November 16, 2010.

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“An honest lie is better than a boring truth.”
-- Marcel Wanders

Source : Marcel Wanders, Yvònne G. J. M. Joris (1999). “Wanders wonders: design for a New Age”

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“I want to create the kinds of things that if the house burns down you want to run and save.”
-- Marcel Wanders

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“Being so rational, we have created a very simple version of ourselves.”
-- Marcel Wanders

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“It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas.”
-- Marcel Wanders

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“Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one idea, you close yourself to the rest.”
-- Marcel Wanders

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“And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings.”

Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.303, Penguin

“Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.”

“Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes.”

“Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury.”

“Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.”

“I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.”

“The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.”

“Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.”

Source : "A comforting way of death" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2002.

“It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.”

Source : "Q&A: Aaron Stanford's Travelin' Man". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. May 09, 2007.

“Terrific. Now to win a larceny trial all we have to do is prove how the universe ends.”