Charles Eames

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

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

“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.”

“Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?”

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

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

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

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

“Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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