Charles Eames Quotes

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

Everything, Ideas, Quality

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

Change, Best, Away

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

Others, Ideas, Passionate

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
Charles Eames

Design, Condition, Primary

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

Art, Process, Quality

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.
Charles Eames

Life, End, Give

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

Real, Problem, Questions

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
Charles Eames

Said, Pleasure, Functional

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

Best, Design, Purpose

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

Good, Bad, Difficult

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

Design, Details

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

Design, Idea, Direct

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

Self, Impossible, Creative

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

Time, Good, Guilty

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.
Charles Eames

Design, Greatest, Matter

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

Work, Next, Reaction

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: June 17, 1907

Died: August 21, 1978

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