Marcel Wanders Quotes

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns - elements that you wouldn't often put together in an interesting way.

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

Beauty, my dear Sir, is not so much a quality of the object beheld, as an effect in him who beholds it. If our sight were longer or shorter, or if our constitution were different, what now appears beautiful to us would seem misshapen, and what we now think misshapen we should regard as beautiful. The most beautiful hand seen through the microscope will appear horrible. Some things are beautiful at a distance, but ugly near;

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.

Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.

I like form and shape and strength in pictures.

Form follows beauty.

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.