Philippe Starck Quotes
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I like to open the doors to people's brain.
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I am my brain's publisher.
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I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product.
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Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary.
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My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision, poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].
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I have this mental sickness called creativity.
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I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist.
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In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to detect. A minimal knowledge of physics, astrophysics, and perhaps mathematics, brings to light certain patterns that make these subjects easier to understand. It is striking to see the extreme similarity between these scientific propositions and the forms that recur in all times, places and civilizations.
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Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.
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The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is
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Freedom is the only style. That is why I never speak about beauty or beautiful products but "good products"... Nowadays, we have to face so many challenges,...so it is not really a priority to care for beauty. The only way for us is to focus on an ethic and ecological behaviour.
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Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.
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No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.
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Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.
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My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations.
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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.
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The best everyday example of relativity, the finest symptom of human intelligence, is humor. (...) Design without humor is not human. The word 'beautiful' does not mean anything. Only coherence counts. An object, design or not, is primarily an object that meets the parameters of human intelligence, which reconciles opposites. The lack of humor is the definition of vulgarity.
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We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.
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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.
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Design is a tool to help the tribe.
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Future is about dematerialisation.
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Design does not really interest me
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For me, luxury is intelligence and quality. I don't see a lot of intelligence and quality in luxury when it's used to make fast, big money.
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Design is a dreadful form of expression
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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.
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Getting to the heart of things, is never easy
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For the organic food, the less it's designed, the better it is
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Despite its simple and humble design, Zik is certainly today one of our most successful products in terms of intuitive ergonomics.
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Providing a real way to deal with the urgent needs of environmental issues that is accessible to everyone is the new fight for the democratization of design.
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In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant.
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