Top 45 Eames Quotes
#1. At the pinnacle of great design are products so gorgeous and lust-worthy that you want to lick them: a Porsche 911, Samsung's Luxia TV, an Eames lounge chair or anything by Loro Piana.
Gary Hamel
#2. ARTHUR: (indicates rain) Couldn't you have peed before we went under?
YUSUF: Sorry.
The front door OPENS and Eames climbs in, soaked.
EAMES: Bit too much free champagne before takeoff, Yusuf?
YUSUF: Ha bloody ha.
Christopher J. Nolan
#3. EAMES: Try this... "MY FATHER ACCEPTS THAT I WANT TO CREATE FOR MYSELF, NOT FOLLOW IN HIS FOOTSTEPS."
COBB: That might work.
ARTHUR: Might? We'll have to do better than that.
EAMES: Thanks for the contribution, Arthur.
ARTHUR: Forgive me for wanting a little specificity, Eames.
Christopher J. Nolan
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. I grew up in a time when Eames and Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright and other architects were putting their furniture and objects on the market. You could buy some of those objects on the open market. Eames was a huge influence on all of us in school.
Michael Graves
#8. EAMES: Shouldn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, Arthur-
Eames lines up a shot with a grenade launcher. Fires- the sniper EXPLODES into the air- Arthur looks at Eames.
EAMES: Shall we?
Christopher J. Nolan
#9. I asked these Indians: "Do men ever make Chicha?" My question was met with gales of laughter. The women howled. Bent over in hilarity, one replied, "Men can't brew. Chicha made by men would only make gas in the belly. You are a funny man! Beer is women's work."
Alan D. Eames
#10. Well, you see how big he was. Apparently he broke through a latrine seat and drowned in the sewage below." A shitty way to go,
Nicholas Eames
#11. 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.
Charles Eames
#12. It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
Charles Eames
#13. It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
Charles Eames
#16. A good actor makes clear the meaning of the words. A better actor gives also the emotion of the part. The best actor adds emotion of which the character is unconscious.
Clare Eames
#17. WHEN WE SEEK TO RULE ONLY OURSELVES, WE ARE EACH OF US KINGS.
Nicholas Eames
#18. As individuals they were each of them fallible, discordant as notes without harmony. But as a band they were something more, something perfect in its own intangible way
Nicholas Eames
#19. This is all thousands of years old. It's the same the world over. Anyone who has ever walked upright has loved beer, celebrated over it, told talks over it, hatched plots over it, courted over it. It's what we do as a species. It's what makes us human. We brew.
Alan D. Eames
#20. Beyond the age of information, there is the age of choices.
Charles Eames
#21. We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
Charles Eames
#22. Lucky," said Gabriel. Clay glanced at him sidelong. "I'm not sure that word means what you think it means." "We
Nicholas Eames
#24. A tiger, however fearsome, could be hunted into a corner. It fought alone, so it died alone. But to hunt a wolf was to constantly look over your shoulder, wondering if others were behind you in the dark. "Lost?
Nicholas Eames
#25. Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
Charles Eames
#26. Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
Charles Eames
#27. Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
Charles Eames
#28. Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
Charles Eames
#29. 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.
Charles Eames
#30. Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness, the awful realization of our mortality
Alan D. Eames
#31. they passed through the wide-open gates into the city whose parents had hired a prostitute as a babysitter and never come home. The
Nicholas Eames
#33. It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.
Charles Eames
#34. 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
#35. Choose Your Corner, Pick Away At It Carefully, Intensely, & To The Best Of Your Ability, & That Way, You Might change The World.
Charles Eames
#36. In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
Charles Eames
#37. Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
Charles Eames
#39. 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
#40. Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human.
Alan D. Eames
#41. Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.
Charles Eames
#42. The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
Charles Eames
#43. The details are not the details. They make the design.
Charles Eames
#44. Eventually Everything Connects - all the Pain, the Struggle & the People.
Charles Eames
#45. Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture.
Alan D. Eames
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