Marcel Wanders Quotes

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

I've come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings.

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.

There's no Peter York Foundation, and you're no one without one.

Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.

Titles were symbols, just as impressive buildings were symbols, except that titles, unlike buildings, cost nothing.

Contrast increases the splendor of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.

We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

…property in fact generally confers power, though the possessor of it may not have much more wit than a mole or a mugwash…

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a contempt for mere external show.

You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position

… one accumulates or one gets accumulated.

Wealth has never been a sufficient source of honour in itself. It must be advertised, and the normal medium is obtrusively expensive.

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Of course we'd rather not see Picasso teacups and sheets.

I've always been the popular one in my school, in my town. Everyone always knew who I was.

My artwork is in order to seduce people into thinking.

The French, whose fascination with 19th-century Japanese painting and decorative art led them to coin the term 'Japonisme,' have reciprocated the interest, and the exchange - in food, fashion and design - is ongoing. After all, these are two countries where style is considered essential to life.

I admire Turgenev, Camus, Proust and Shakespeare, but I've also learnt a lot about writing from composers and artists.

For me, how an appliance looks is as important as how efficiently it works.

Fashion and music are connected, since both are expressions.

I work on my technique, but when I do a video, I want people to be amazed by the speed or the power. The casual fans don't care if your hands are up or your hands are down.

If you're holding your iPhone, and it's the newest iteration of it, you're like, 'Oh, famous people have my phone. Captains of industry have my phone.' And that can be an intoxicating experience for someone who is going off to college for the first time.