Philippe Starck Professions : Designer Born : January 18, 1949 Browse All Authors Top 36 quotes by Philippe Starck My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealism and magic [to design]. Philippe Starck design vision ideas My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations. Philippe Starck lemons conversation 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. Philippe Starck color depression happy We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept. Philippe Starck design humanist goodness I have this mental sickness called creativity. Philippe Starck sickness creativity Freedom is the only style. That is why I never speak about beauty or beautiful products but "good products"... Nowadays, we have to face so many challenges,...so it is not really a priority to care for beauty. The only way for us is to focus on an ethic and ecological behaviour. Philippe Starck priorities focus beautiful Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer. Philippe Starck designer political humorous No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate. Philippe Starck obliged genius 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. Philippe Starck design sun people Design is a dreadful form of expression Philippe Starck design form expression Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary. Philippe Starck unnecessary The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The word 'beautiful' does not mean anything. Only coherence counts. An object, design or not, is primarily an object that meets the parameters of human intelligence, which reconciles opposites. The lack of humor is the definition of vulgarity. Philippe Starck opposites beautiful mean I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product. Philippe Starck copying waiting brain Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production. Philippe Starck elegance honesty two 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. Philippe Starck luxury design quality Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning. Philippe Starck symbols 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. Philippe Starck design monk genius Design is a tool to help the tribe. Philippe Starck tribes design tools 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. Philippe Starck dream desire trying Future is about dematerialisation. Philippe Starck Similar Authors Bruce Mau designer Brian Reynolds designer Bran Ferren designer Amy Butler Greenfield designer Alex Bogusky designer Alec Issigonis designer All Authors
