Charles Eames's Quotes

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

Charles Eames

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

Charles Eames

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

Charles Eames

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

Charles Eames

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

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

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

Charles Eames