Top 31 Starck Quotes

#1. I have this mental sickness called creativity

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#2. I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product.

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#3. Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.

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#4. You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.

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#5. No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.

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#6. The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is

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#7. Anyone can build a building that protects people from heat, sun and cold. What I am determined to do is to make a stage where people can be sexier and more brilliant, a place where they can awake smarter.

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#8. We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

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#9. In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant,

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#10. I like to open the doors to people's brain.

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#11. Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary,

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#12. Getting to the heart of things, is never easy

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#13. My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

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#14. In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.

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#15. Design is a tool to help the tribe.

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#16. I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist.

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#17. Freedom is the only style. That is why I never speak about beauty or beautiful products but 'good products'. Nowadays, we have so many challenges; it is not really a priority to care for beauty. The only way for us is to focus on an ethic and ecological behaviour.

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#18. Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

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#19. My best office is my bed.

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#20. Design does not really interest me

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#21. I wanted the bike to be able to go over all kinds of terrains and especially infinite and poetic territories,

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#22. My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations

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#23. Design is a dreadful form of expression

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#24. Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence.

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#25. I am my brain's publisher.

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#26. Despite its simple and humble design, Zik is certainly today one of our most successful products in terms of intuitive ergonomics.

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#27. Future is about dematerialisation.

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#28. For the organic food, the less it's designed, the better it is

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#29. For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don't see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it's used to make fast, big money.

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#30. I try to rediscover why that object exists at all, and why one should take the trouble to reconsider It. I don't consider the technical or commercial parameters so much as the desire for a dream that humans have attempted to project onto an object.

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#31. Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.

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