Charles Eames Quotes
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Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
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Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
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The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
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In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
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Design is an expression of purpose. It may, if it is good enough, later be judged as art.
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I have never been forced to accept compromises but I have willingly accepted constraints.
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It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.
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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.
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The details are not the details. They make the design.
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Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
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Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
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Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
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Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.
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Design may be a solution to some industrial problems.
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Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
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It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
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We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
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Designers should only innovate as a last resort.
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It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
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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.