Quotes by Charles Eames

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

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"The details are not the details. They make the design."

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"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."

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"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."

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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."

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

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