Top 35 Charles Eames Sayings
#1. Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without any assistance from the other two.
Bill N. Lacy
#2. Particularly in the past fifty years the world has gradually been finding out something that architects have always known - that is - that everything is architecture. Charles Eames
John Harwood
#3. I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
Yves Behar
#4. The details are not the details. They make the design.
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#5. Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
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#6. Eventually Everything Connects - all the Pain, the Struggle & the People.
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#7. Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
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#8. It was like she was so empty there wasn't even a feeling or thought in her.
Carson McCullers
#9. 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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#10. It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
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#11. It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
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#14. Beyond the age of information, there is the age of choices.
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#16. We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
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#17. ... a strong character is one that will not be unbalanced by the most powerful emotions
Carl Von Clausewitz
#19. Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
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#20. I had a dream about you. We were actors in a horror movie and I was hunting you down with a knife. When I finally cornered you the director yelled "Cut".... What? I can't be blamed for following instructions.
Georgia Saratsioti
#21. You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
Yeardley Smith
#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. 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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#26. Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
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#27. A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.
William Hazlitt
#28. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.
Seneca The Younger
#29. In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.
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#34. 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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#35. Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
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