Starck Quotes & Sayings

My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations — Philippe Starck

I like to open the doors to people's brain. — Philippe Starck

I have this mental sickness called creativity — Philippe Starck

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

For the organic food, the less it's designed, the better it is — Philippe Starck

Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning. — Philippe Starck

I am my brain's publisher. — Philippe Starck

In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to detect. A minimal knowledge of physics, astrophysics, and perhaps mathematics, brings to light certain patterns that make these subjects easier to understand. It is striking to see the extreme similarity between these scientific propositions and the forms that recur in all times, places and civilizations. — Philippe Starck

No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate. — Philippe Starck

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

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

Despite its simple and humble design, Zik is certainly today one of our most successful products in terms of intuitive ergonomics. — Philippe Starck

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept. — Philippe Starck

A chef is a chef, a cook is a cook; a lorry driver is a lorry driver and a designer is a designer. I've never heard anyone say that Philippe Starck is a chef. The important thing is dialogue. If I said to Norman Foster that he was a chef he'd say "No", but he might have a dialogue with chefs. People have said to me for many years that I'm not a chef and that I'm an artist instead, but I always say, "No, I'm a chef." I just have dialogues with designers. — Ferran Adria

Future is about dematerialisation. — Philippe Starck

In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant, — Philippe Starck

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design]. — Philippe Starck

I wanted the bike to be able to go over all kinds of terrains and especially infinite and poetic territories, — Philippe Starck

Design does not really interest me — Philippe Starck

Design is a dreadful form of expression — Philippe Starck

In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism. — Philippe Starck

Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence. — Philippe Starck

The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is — Philippe Starck

Getting to the heart of things, is never easy — Philippe Starck

Dreaming is a form of action. Idleness is a form of action. The idle man stares at the sky and sees what constitutes our eternal ceiling. The sky is one of the things that constructs us, one of our constants. But it is not what people believe. I should like to close this circle by turning over in my bed and scrutinizing the stars. — Philippe Starck

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

Freedom is the only style. That is why I never speak about beauty or beautiful products but 'good products'. Nowadays, we have so many challenges; 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

Design is a tool to help the tribe. — Philippe Starck

I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product. — Philippe Starck

Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary, — Philippe Starck

My best office is my bed. — Philippe Starck

Working with Emeco has allowed me to use a recycled material and transform it into something that never needs to be discarded - a tireless and unbreakable chair to use and enjoy for a lifetime. It is a chair you never own, you just use it for a while until it is the next persons turn. A great chair never should have to be recycled. This is good consideration of nature and man kind. — Philippe Starck

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

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

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer. — Philippe Starck

Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production. — Philippe Starck