Marcel Wanders Quotes

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.

I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.

Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.

There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.

Creating a future requires a profound and yes, unrealistic, vision of what is possible. But it is fantasy and wonder that drive technology and innovation.

People inspire me. Curiosity inspires me. Mystery inspires me.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

I've always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, 'What are you looking at so intensely?' I would answer, 'Everything and nothing.' She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.