Charles Eames Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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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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• Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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

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• Who ever said that pleasure wasn’t functional?

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Charles Eames (16)

Birth:	17th June, 1907
Death:	21st August, 1978
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Architect, Designer, Filmmaker

About

Charles Eames was an American Architect, designer and filmmaker. He also worked in the fields of industrial and graphic design, fine art and film. Charles briefly studied architecture at Washington University in St. Louis on an architecture scholarship. In 1930, Charles began his own architectural practice in St. Louis with partner Charles Gray. They were later joined by a third partner, Walter Pauley.

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