Marcel Wanders Quotes

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

I really don't think of my work in terms of a genre. I think of it in terms of what I want to say, what I think is cool, and what I'm good at.

With every character, I just bring something that I can make my own.

What appears on the page comes out of your experience, and no-one is going to see it in quite the same way - so, that being so, you're already doing something in a thoroughly individual and idiosyncratic way anyway.

You develop a voice and a process that's unique to yourself.

I know someone might look at a creative person's job and think it's pretty fun. It is. It's the best thing in the world, but it's also extremely challenging to carve out your own completely unique path and not following a default path that someone else has already paved.

All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.

The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.

Everything I do with BLK DNM is more personal than anything I have done before. I've worked hard to go deeper in my true intuition, and therefore I am definitely more pure in my personal taste than ever.

Everything I make starts very personally.

The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.

If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

Nowadays I think it's really important that designers are really unique and individual.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

I only make movies that are interesting to me.

Making art is different for everyone.

Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.

Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art.

For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.