Philippe Starck Quotes

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• I have this mental sickness called creativity.

  Philippe Starck

  Creativity, Sickness

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

  Philippe Starck

  Ideas, Design, Vision

  "Design and Technology for the Next Generation: A Collection of Provocative Pieces, Written by Experts in Their Field to Stimulate Reflection and Curriculum Innovation". Book edited by David Barlex, November 15, 2007.

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

  Philippe Starck

  Conversation, Lemons

  "Emotional about design". www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2004.

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

  Philippe Starck

  Design, Goodness, Humanist

  "Design and Technology for the Next Generation". Book edited by David Barlex, 2007.

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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.

  Philippe Starck

  Happy, Depression, Color

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• Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary.

  Philippe Starck

  Unnecessary

  "Philippe Starck and "design is dead"". DIE ZEIT Intreview, www.cnet.com. April 8, 2008.

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• Design is a dreadful form of expression

  Philippe Starck

  Expression, Design, Form

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

  Philippe Starck

  Genius, Obliged

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

  Philippe Starck

  Humorous, Political, Designer

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

  Philippe Starck

  Symbols

  New York Magazine Vol. 19, October 06, 1986.

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• Design is a tool to help the tribe.

  Philippe Starck

  Design, Tools, Tribes

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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.

  Philippe Starck

  Beautiful, Focus, Priorities

  "Playing with Philippe Starck". Interview with Anna Battista, www.dazeddigital.com. May 20, 2010.

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• 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.

  Philippe Starck

  People, Design, Sun

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

  Philippe Starck

  Honesty, Two, Elegance

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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.

  Philippe Starck

  Waiting, Brain, Copying

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• Future is about dematerialisation.

  Philippe Starck

  "Playing with Philippe Starck". Dazed Digital interview, www.dazeddigital.com. May 20, 2010.

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

  Philippe Starck

  Doors, People, Brain

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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.

  Philippe Starck

  Luxury, Design, Quality

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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.

  Philippe Starck

  Beautiful, Mean, Opposites

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

  Philippe Starck

  Elegance

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• The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is

  Philippe Starck

  Humanity, Materiality

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• 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.

  Philippe Starck

  Dream, Desire, Trying

  Graphis: International Journal for Graphic and Applied Art, 1996.

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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.

  Philippe Starck

  Design, Genius, Monk

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• I am my brain's publisher.

  Philippe Starck

  Brain, Intellect, Publishers

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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.

  Philippe Starck

  Designer, Trainers, Coaches

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