Charles Eames Quotes

"Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?"
- Charles Eames
(Related: Pleasure)

"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
(Related: Design, Class)

"The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?"
- Charles Eames
(Related: Questions, Years)

"The details are not the details. They make the design."
- Charles Eames
(Related: Design)

"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
(Related: Life, End, Will)

"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."
- Charles Eames
(Related: Design)

"It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do."
- Charles Eames
(Related: Time)

"It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act."
- Charles Eames
(Related: Act, Expression, Self)

"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make."
- Charles Eames
(Related: Ideas)

"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."
- Charles Eames
(Related: Quality, People, Ideas, Key)

"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."
- Charles Eames
(Related: Design, Purpose)

"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
(Related: Change, Ability, World)

"Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic."
- Charles Eames
(Related: Art, Quality, Magic)

"We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next."
- Charles Eames
(Related: Work)

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