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.

It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.

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

It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.

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.

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.

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

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

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