Marcel Wanders Quotes

Never forget that what becomes timeless was once truly new.

I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.

Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

We do worry that we might be making something we've made before. It's important that we make something we've never made before.

There's no-one in particular that we look up to, because we strive to be something that's never gone before.

Every time we create something new we go from zero to one.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.

It's a new game now, you know, you have to bring some fresh stuff.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

What I have done here no one has done before.

I want to do something that people have not seen before... surprise everyone. There has to be variety in work.

I want to create new value by doing something people haven't done before.

You have to push the boundary, do something that people haven't seen before, because then it is exciting for them.

We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.

We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain.

The most successful people are so original.

The world has always gone forward when people have dared to have crazy ideas.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.