Explore Quotes by Philippe Starck

Design is a dreadful form of expression

I like to open the doors to people's brain.

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.

In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.

Despite its simple and humble design, Zik is certainly today one of our most successful products in terms of intuitive ergonomics.

I try to rediscover why that object exists at all, and why one should take the trouble to reconsider It. I don't consider the technical or commercial parameters so much as the desire for a dream that humans have attempted to project onto an object.

I wanted the bike to be able to go over all kinds of terrains and especially infinite and poetic territories.

Working with Emeco has allowed me to use a recycled material and transform it into something that never needs to be discarded - a tireless and unbreakable chair to use and enjoy for a lifetime. It is a chair you never own, you just use it for a while until it is the next persons turn. A great chair never should have to be recycled. This is good consideration of nature and man kind.

My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations.

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant.

No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.

Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.

Anyone can build a building that protects people from heat, sun and cold. What I am determined to do is to make a stage where people can be sexier and more brilliant, a place where they can awake smarter.

Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary.

Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.

Design is a tool to help the tribe.

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

I have this mental sickness called creativity.

Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence.