Charles Eames

“The objective is to produce the best for the most for the least.”

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

“What works good is better than what looks good, because what works good lasts.”

“Toys are not really as innocent as they look. Toys and games are precursors to serious ideas.”

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

“Beyond the age of information is the age of choices.”

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

“The role of the designer is that of a good, thoughtful host anticipating the needs of his guests.”

“Take your pleasure seriously.”

“Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.”

“Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.”

“Design is an expression of the purpose, and it may (if it is good enough) later be judged as art.”

“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.”