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We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
Charles Eames
Work
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
Charles Eames
Art
Quality
Magic
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
Change
Ability
World
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
Charles Eames
Design
Purpose
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
Charles Eames
Quality
People
Ideas
Key
Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.
Charles Eames
Ideas
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
Charles Eames
Act
Expression
Self
It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.
Charles Eames
Time
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
Charles Eames
Design
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
Life
End
Will
The details are not the details. They make the design.
Charles Eames
Design
The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
Charles Eames
Questions
Years
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
Class
Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
Charles Eames
Pleasure
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
Charles Eames
Architecture
Design
Idea