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Charles Eames

23 quotes in 75 categories

[Wikipedia] Charles Ormond Eames Jr. was an American designer, architect and filmmaker. In professional partnership with his wife Ray-Bernice Kaiser Eames, he made groundbreaking contributions in the fields of architecture, furniture design, industrial design, manufacturing and the photographic arts.

Quotes by Charles Eames

“Who is to say that pleasure is useless?”

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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

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

Art

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

Bad

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

Architecture

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“Most people aren’t trained to want to face the process of re-understanding a subject they already know. One must obtain not just…

Learning

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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…

Best

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Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

Condition

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“Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects...the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se...I don't believe in this…

Design

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Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

Ever

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“Choose Your Corner, Pick Away At It Carefully, Intensely, & To The Best Of Your Ability, & That Way, You Might change The World.”

Change the world

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

Design

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

Connections

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“The most important thing is that you love what you are doing, and the second that you are not afraid of where…

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

Feel

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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?

How

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

Act

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

Chain

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“Genius? Nothing--we just worked harder.”

Intelligence

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

Accomplish

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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.

Always

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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…

Connections

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“Beyond the age of information, there is the age of choices.”

Choice

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