Charles Eames
Charles Eames
Charles Ormond Eames, Jrand Bernice Alexandra "Ray"Eames/ˈiːmz/ were husband and wife American designers who made significant historical contributions to the development of modern architecture and furniture. Among their most well-known designs is the Eames Lounge Chair. They also worked in the fields of industrial and graphic design, fine art and film...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth17 June 1907
CountryUnited States of America
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The recognition and understanding of the need was the primary condition of the creative act. When people feel they had to express themselves for originality for its own sake, that tends not to be creativity. Only when you get into the problem and the problem becomes clear, can creativity take over.
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We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
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It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
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It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.
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Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.
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It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
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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.
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Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
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The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
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Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
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Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.