Charles Eames Quotes

» Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

» The details are not the details. They make the design.

» Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

» The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.

» To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.

» Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

» In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

» It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

» It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

» We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.

» Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.

» Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

» The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?

» Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

» It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.

» Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

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