Marcel Wanders Quotes

My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

There has been a major shift in how we live in our homes. Everyone knows the kitchen is the soul of the house. It's more of an open-concept approach.

Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

Consider your house from an aesthetic point of view.

Light is the greatest disinfectant in nature and also in organizations.

I love linen in soothing colors for any room in the house.

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

I have a lovely office at the back of my house; it's an old stable and you can see right out to the countryside on one side and into the house on the other side.

Make sure that everyone who should know what you are doing knows what you are doing.

There are no secrets.

The thing that I've decided is, I don't want to be invisible, but I'd like to be transparent. I want people to see what I'm thinking and see through me.

It would be easier to be more mysterious, but I try to be accessible.

Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.

I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.

Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain

I myself shall continue living in my glass house where you can always see who comes to call, where everything hanging from the the ceiling and on the walls stays where it is as if by magic, where I sleep nights in a glass bed, under glass sheets, where who I am will sooner or later appear etched by a diamond.

Nothing is hidden under the sun.

Transparency is the new objectivity.

Truth is a naked and open daylight

Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.

What you see is what you get.

I want to throw open the windows of the Church so that we can see out and the people can see in.

The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground.