Amsterdam Quote by Marcel Wanders

Amsterdam is a breeding ground for new creative pursuits in many areas fueled by a tolerance and openness to ideas unlike any world city…

— Marcel Wanders

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

— John Green

Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people.

— Eddy de Clercq

When I wrote my book about Amsterdam, the main objective was to talk about the city's creativity rather than just its design.

— Marcel Wanders

“Our City has a rich history, even though many tourists are only wanting to see the Red Light District. Some tourists think Amsterdam is…

— John Green

Amsterdam is such a fun, cool place, and it's very Instagrammable with the canals and the boats and the flowers and the architecture. It's…

— NikkieTutorials

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind…

— James Weldon Johnson

“Amsterdam mesmerized me. The narrow houses that lined the canals, the centuries-old architecture, the squares throughout the city and the cafés all had a…

— Ekamjit Ghuman

You could spend your time with your nose buried in a guidebook, but Amsterdam really is best explored on foot, so you can stumble…

— Gregory Porter

I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of Holland, but…

— Anton Corbijn

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries,

— Janet Echelman

“The surface of Amsterdam thrives on these mutual acts of surveillance, the neighborly smothering of a person's spirit.”

— Jessie Burton