"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."
- Charles Eames
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"The details are details. They make the product."
- Charles Eames
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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."
- Charles Eames
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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."
- Charles Eames
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"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."
- Charles Eames
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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?"
- Charles Eames
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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."
- Charles Eames
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"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."
- Charles Eames
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"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."
- Charles Eames
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"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."
- Charles Eames
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"It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act."
- Charles Eames
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"It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad."
- Charles Eames
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"We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next."
- Charles Eames
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"Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic."
- Charles Eames
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"It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do."
- Charles Eames
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