Charles Eames Quotes & Sayings

Take your pleasure seriously. — Charles Eames

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. — Charles Eames

Who is to say that pleasure is useless? — Charles Eames

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

Genius? Nothing--we just worked harder. — Charles Eames

Eventually everything connects. — Charles Eames

Beyond the age of information, there is the age of choices. — Charles Eames

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design. — Charles Eames

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional? — Charles Eames

The details are not the details. They make the design. — Charles Eames

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

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

Most people aren't trained to want to face the process of re-understanding a subject they already know. One must obtain not just literacy, but deep involvement and re-understanding. — Charles Eames

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

Take your pleasures seriously. — Charles Eames

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

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

Eventually Everything Connects - all the Pain, the Struggle & the People. — Charles Eames

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

The most important thing is that you love what you are doing, and the second that you are not afraid of where your next idea will lead. — 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. — Charles Eames

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

Choose Your Corner, Pick Away At It Carefully, Intensely, & To The Best Of Your Ability, & That Way, You Might change The World. — Charles Eames

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

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