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Charles Eames - From the Art category:
Art resides in the quality of doing; process is not magic. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Choices category:
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)
Charles Eames - From the Collaboration category:
-husband and wife team, Charles and Ray Eames...
Whatever I can do, she can do better... She is equally responsible with me for everything that goes on here. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Creativity category:
Recent years have shown a growing preoccupation with the circumstances surrounding the creative act and a search for the ingredients that promote creativity. This preoccupation in itself suggests that we are in a special kind of trouble - and indeed we are. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Design category:
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Design category:
Any time one or more things are consciously put together in a way that they can accomplish something better than they could have accomplished individually, this is an act of design. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Design category:
The details are not the details. They make the design. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Difficulty category:
Don't let the blood show. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Difficulty category:
It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Education category:
If nothing else, a student must get from his training a feeling of security in change. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Guilt category:
It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Ideas category:
Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Importance category:
The most important thing is that you love what you are doing, and the second that you are not afraid of where your next idea will lead. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Impossibilities category:
It is almost impossible to reconcile self-expression with the creative act. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Influence category:
To be realistic one must always admit the influence of those who have gone before. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Information category:
Beyond the age of information is the age of choices. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Innovation category:
Innovate as a last resort. More horrors are done in the name of innovation than any other. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Knowledge category:
Unlike Keats, who said that knowing about the rainbow shatters its beauty, I feel that the knowledge about an object can only enrich your feelings for the object itself. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Life category:
At all times love and discipline have led to a beautiful environment and a good life. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Pleasure category:
Take your pleasure seriously. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Profession category:
I came to design through architecture, Ray came to design through painting. This should not be at all surprising since I feel that most everything is a form of architecture, certainly all of the environment that man creates for himself - and Ray feels that painting is related to everything and of course I feel that painting
comes under the heading of architecture. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Quality category:
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Questions category:
The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years? (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Selling category:
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)
Charles Eames - From the Talent category:
I don't believe in this 'gifted few' concept, just in people doing things they are really interested in doing. They have a way of getting good at whatever it is. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Understanding category:
Most people are not trained to want to face the process of re-understanding a subject they already know. One must obtain not just literacy, but deep involvement and re-understanding. (Charles Eames)
Charles Eames - From the Work category:
We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next. (Charles Eames)
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