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Charles Eames

"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."

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"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."

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"An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service."

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