Marcel Wanders

If you acquire things, you have to let them go.

— Marcel Wanders

Ambition is a beautiful thing.

— Marcel Wanders

Opulence doesn't cost more than boring.

— Marcel Wanders

Nothing grows old faster than the new.

— Marcel Wanders

My parents weren't cultured people.

— Marcel Wanders

I like to find areas where design has not yet gone.

— Marcel Wanders

An honest lie is better than a boring truth.

— Marcel Wanders

The things I own are sacred.

— Marcel Wanders

What's special about Amsterdam is that the city is able to connect worlds that are not otherwise connected.

— Marcel Wanders

People like their handbag more than their sofa, and I hate it.

— Marcel Wanders

Here to create an environment of love, live with passion, and make our most exciting dreams come true

— Marcel Wanders

Being open to the unexpected allows me to bring so much to my craft.

— Marcel Wanders

I want to make sure people are connected with the future as well as the past.

— Marcel Wanders

I like to be the jester - he is the only one the king doesn't question.

— Marcel Wanders

I think design is the expression of its time and culture.

— Marcel Wanders

By training, I'm an engineer, but I don't tell anyone because it bores people.

— Marcel Wanders

As humans, we are not so rationalist as we think we are. I think our biggest quality is indeed that we are…

— Marcel Wanders

Design, by definition, is an eco-friendly activity, as its aim is to create objects which are meaningful and durable. Trends always cost…

— Marcel Wanders

I wanted to go beyond the sentiments and needs of daily life to create a sense of wonder and find a new…

— Marcel Wanders

For me, true kitsch has nothing to do with irony. It's very honest. It represents what people like, their dreams.

— Marcel Wanders

A good gift celebrates the relationship between the giver and the receiver. When you open that box, you feel like, 'Wow, you…

— Marcel Wanders

My mom and dad had a store, and sometimes people would return broken stuff. I'd take it apart and reassemble it. At…

— Marcel Wanders

You can go to any second-hand store and get an amazing piece - I have pieces from flea markets at home. You…

— Marcel Wanders

If I look at my own growth, I started in product design. And we grew and created new products, and we were…

— 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…

— Marcel Wanders

I have a long list of how people call me: 'The Prince of Design,' 'Beethoven of Design,' 'the Dutch Prince of Design'…

— Marcel Wanders

I've always liked the idea of making things that last forever, not necessarily in the sense of being unbreakable, but more psychologically…

— Marcel Wanders

Everything has been done. It's not possible to create something completely new, something that has never been seen before. It's only possible…

— Marcel Wanders

I'm 100 percent sure the love and energy we give to a project will end up inside of it. I think it's…

— Marcel Wanders

I think what makes me different is that... I am comfortable with expressing my vulnerability. I think designers often want to just…

— Marcel Wanders

I have 60 people working for me in my studio. That's luxury if you ask me. I just dream. Tell those people…

— Marcel Wanders

Inspiration has become this word that people tend to talk about as something from the outside. The truth is that... it is…

— Marcel Wanders

I wear mascara sometimes, a little lip gloss.

— Marcel Wanders

Food has always been at the frontier of creativity.

— Marcel Wanders

I've turned into something of a health nut.

— Marcel Wanders

I listen to a variety of music. I like everything from old Arabic music to Portuguese fados.

— Marcel Wanders

I want to create the kinds of things that if the house burns down you want to run and save.

— Marcel Wanders

If something is functional, you no longer think about it. I care about how meaningful things are.

— Marcel Wanders

The 'Dezeen's of this world are extremely inspirational but have no realistic dimension any more.

— Marcel Wanders

I'm not a person who regrets - it doesn't make me smarter to regret something.

— Marcel Wanders