Quotes from Charles Eames

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

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

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

The details are not the details. They make the 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.

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.

The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?

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

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

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

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

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

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

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.

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

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

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

Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects...the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se...I don't believe in this 'gifted few' concept, just in people doing things they are really interested in doing. They have a way of getting good at whatever it is.

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.

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

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

The details are not the details. They make the design.