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"Movies can be instruments of enlightenment."
"The goal of art was the vital expression of self."
"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."
"Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late."
"When whisperedwhat an exquisitesong, it makes-your name."
"A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved."
"It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."
"Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make."
"The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?"
"Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."
"It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do."
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