Quotes from Charles Eames

Who is to say that pleasure is useless?

Take your pleasure seriously.

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

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

Eventually everything connects.

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.

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

Take your pleasures seriously.

We like to think we're pretty special, and, OK, in some respects maybe we are. And we like to think that we design for ourselves. And we do, we really do. But in the important ways we are really very much like a lot of other people. And if you are going to design for yourself, then you have to make sure you design deeply for yourself, because otherwise you are just designing for your eccentricities and that can never be satisfying to anyone else.

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

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

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