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