Philippe Starck Quotes

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• Getting to the heart of things, is never easy
• The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is
• Providing a real way to deal with the urgent needs of environmental issues that is accessible to everyone is the new fight for the democratization…
• The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The word 'beautiful' does…
• Freedom is the only style. That is why I never speak about beauty or beautiful products but 'good products'. Nowadays, we have so many challenges;…
• Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.
• Design is a tool to help the tribe.
• Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence.
• I have this mental sickness called creativity
• We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.
• Anyone can build a building that protects people from heat, sun and cold. What I am determined to do is to make a stage where…
• Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary,
• No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.
• In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant,
• Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.
• I try to rediscover why that object exists at all, and why one should take the trouble to reconsider It. I don't consider the technical…
• My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations
• Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.
• I wanted the bike to be able to go over all kinds of terrains and especially infinite and poetic territories,
• Working with Emeco has allowed me to use a recycled material and transform it into something that never needs to be discarded - a tireless…

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