Marcel Wanders Quotes

Kitsch is very important to me.

I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be.

One of the questions that has most bothered me in my reflections on culture is the question of kitsch. Just what is it? When did it begin? And why?

I think I'm pretty simple; what you see is what you get.

I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy.

I would love to say I grew up on 2Pac and The Beatles, but I didn't.

I'm not uncomfortable with sincerity in my regular life, but, like in terms of my product that I offer, I think that it's weird, because comics used to be way more sincere in the '80s.

I learned at a very young age how to be simplistic and sincere.

I'm not trying to be anything other than the way I was born and raised.

I relate more to 90 percent of America because I look like 'em, act like 'em. I'm not above anybody; I put my pants on the same way. Some guys try to live up to their persona. I'm just me.

When I grew up where I grew up, things were very, very different, and nobody had a filter. And that's what brought us together.

Simplicity is the key for me. I can't write clever songs; I just can't do it.

I'm just a straightforward kind of dude.

I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.

A lot of people call horror movies 'campy,' and I can certainly see why they think that they are, but being a product of the 80s, I didn't notice that they were campy - I came from a campy generation. I mean, Ronald Reagan is campy. But I don't think they're campy.

There are no pretensions where I'm from.

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Boiled down to its core, the truth is always a simple, solid thing

... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.

Simple is the speech of truth.

I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.

... there was an honesty inherent in bulkiness if it is just the right amount.

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.