Marcel Wanders Quotes

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.

I can do something with almost anything I see. Everything is still interesting to me.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

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

I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

Love color. Take risks. Stay curious.

I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother's lampshades to make a dress. I was three.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

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.

You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

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.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.

Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.