Charles Eames

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

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

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

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. ”

Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional? ”

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. ”

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

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

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

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