Author: Charles Eames

Quotes

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

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

- Charles Eames

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

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

- Charles Eames

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

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

- Charles Eames

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

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

- Charles Eames

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

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

- Charles Eames

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.

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.

- Charles Eames

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

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

- Charles Eames

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

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

- Charles Eames

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

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

- Charles Eames

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