Charles Eames Quotes
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route... view
By: Charles Eames
Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?.. view
By: Charles Eames
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... view
By: Charles Eames
The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?.. view
By: Charles Eames
The details are not the details. They make the design... view
By: Charles Eames
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... view
By: Charles Eames
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design... view
By: Charles Eames
It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do... view
By: Charles Eames
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act... view
By: Charles Eames
Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make... view
By: Charles Eames
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se... view
By: Charles Eames
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose... view
By: Charles Eames
Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world... view
By: Charles Eames
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic... view
By: Charles Eames
We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next... view
By: Charles Eames
It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad... view
By: Charles Eames