"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."
-Charles Eames
DesignView Quote
Other Quotes by Charles Eames
Discover more inspiring quotes by Charles Eames
"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."
-Charles Eames
DesignView Quote
"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
ChangeView Quote
"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
DesignView Quote
"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."
-Charles Eames
DesignView Quote
"In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route."
-Charles Eames
ArchitectureView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy."
-Erma Bombeck
DesignView Quote
"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering."
-Freeman Dyson
DesignView Quote
"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves."
-Anna Quindlen
DesignView Quote
"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."
-Arthur Erickson
DesignView Quote
"Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated."
-Paul Rand
DesignView Quote
"Luck is the residue of design."
-Branch Rickey
DesignView Quote