Charles Eames

Professions :

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

doing magic quality art

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

design quality people ideas

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

make details design

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

best design purpose way

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

primary condition need 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.

end will details life

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

best you change world

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

questions look problem real

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.

need design matter class

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?

ever who pleasure said

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

things you always ideas

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

feel good me time

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

creative expression self impossible

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

reaction because next work

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

route more design architecture

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

bad good difficult easy

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