Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make. – Charles Eames
It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad. – Charles Eames
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
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose. – Charles Eames
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
It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do. – Charles Eames
The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years? – Charles Eames
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
Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se. – Charles Eames
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. – Charles Eames