Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
- Charles Eames
Purpose, Design, Accomplish, Elements
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
- Charles Eames
Design, Objects, Connects, Per
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
- Charles Eames
Art, Magic, Doing, Resides
Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.
- Charles Eames
Passionate, Always, About, Discoveries
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
Product, Give, Will, In The End
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
Design, Social Class, Social, Enlightened
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
- Charles Eames
Design, Need, Condition, Primary
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
- Charles Eames
Expression, Creative Act, Reconcile
The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
- Charles Eames
Questions, Real, Going, Serviceable
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
Away, Might, Carefully, Change The World
It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
- Charles Eames
Bad, Difficult, Extremely, Something Good
It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.
- Charles Eames
Doing, Anybody, Makes, Good Time
The details are not the details. They make the design.
- Charles Eames
Design, Make, Details
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
- Charles Eames
More, Idea, Pleasurable, Route
We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
- Charles Eames
Next, Reaction, Chain, Leads
Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
- Charles Eames
Pleasure, Said, Ever, Functional
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