23 Quotes by Charles Eames

The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?

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.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

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

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

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

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

We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.