24 Charles Eames’ Most Memorable Quotes
Charles Eames was a groundbreaking American designer who reinvented the entire furniture and architecture industry with their revolutionary sketches. Charles, along with his consort Ray Eames, also contributed in the fields of fine art, graphic design, industrial design, manufacturing and the photographic arts. They went on to receive prestigious recognitions such as AIA Twenty-five Year Award and Royal Gold Medal, for their excellence in the field of designing. The IDSA tagged Charles as the one of "The Most Influential Designer of the 20th Century" Eames: The Architect and the Painter was released in 2011, which depicts their role in the development of modern architecture. Eames was responsible for designing the game-changing Eames Lounge Chair. Majority of his works are displayed at precious locations such as Library of Congress exhibit, The World of Charles and Ray Eames Barbican Art Gallery, Eames & Hollywwod, Art & Design Atomium Museum and Charles and Ray Eames at the Design Museum. We have curated some of Eames’ quotes and sayings from his work, observations, interviews etc. Here are some of the most enlightening quotes from this trailblazer in the designing industry.
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
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.
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.
The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.
We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
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.
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
Beyond the age of information, there is the age of choices.
The details are not the details. They make the design.
Who is to say that pleasure is useless?
Choose Your Corner, Pick Away At It Carefully, Intensely, & To The Best Of Your Ability, & That Way, You Might change The World.
Genius? Nothing--we just worked harder.
Take your pleasure seriously.
It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
Most people aren’t 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.
Eventually everything connects.
