Charles Eames Quotes

#1. Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

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#2. Most people aren't trained to want to face the process of re-understanding a subject they already know. One must obtain not just literacy, but deep involvement and re-understanding.

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#3. Genius? Nothing--we just worked harder.

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

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#5. 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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#6. Choose Your Corner, Pick Away At It Carefully, Intensely, & To The Best Of Your Ability, & That Way, You Might change The World.

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

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

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#9. Eventually everything connects.

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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. The details are not the details. They make the design.

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#14. Eventually Everything Connects - all the Pain, the Struggle & the People.

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

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#16. The most important thing is that you love what you are doing, and the second that you are not afraid of where your next idea will lead.

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

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

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#19. Take your pleasures seriously.

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#20. Take your pleasure seriously.

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#21. Beyond the age of information, there is the age of choices.

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

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#23. Who is to say that pleasure is useless?

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#24. Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

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

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