Charles Eames
designer, architect, filmmaker, film director, director, graphic artist, production designer
Read on Wikipedia1907 – 1978
All Quotes by Charles Eames
“Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.”
“Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.”
“I have never been forced to accept compromises but I have willingly accepted constraints.”
“Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects... the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”
“The details are not the details. These make the design.”
“One could describe Design as a plan for arranging elements to accomplish a particular purpose.”
“[Design is] an expression of purpose. It may, if it is good enough, later be judged as art.”
“Design may be a solution to some industrial problems.”
“Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.”
“Designers should only innovate as a last resort.”
“Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.”
“Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.”
“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...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.”
“In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.”