Charles Eames Quotes - BrainyQuote

American - Designer June 17, 1907 - August 21, 1978

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

People Quality Ideas Design

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

Best Change You World

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.

Life End Details Will

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

Look Problem Real Questions

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

Work Reaction Next Because

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

Art Quality Process Doing

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.

Matter Design Need Class

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

Best Way Purpose Design

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

Design Details Make

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

Good Bad Easy Difficult

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

You Ideas Things Always

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

Pleasure Said Who Ever

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

Good Me Time Feel

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

Architecture Design More Route

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

Design Need Condition Primary

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

Self Creative Impossible Expression

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