Philippe Starck Quotes About Design

Quotes about: Design

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Philippe Starck

  Light, Civilization, Design

• Dreaming is a form of action. Idleness is a form of action. The idle man stares at the sky and sees what constitutes our eternal ceiling. The sky is one of the things that constructs us, one of our constants. But it is not what people believe. I should like to close this circle by turning over in my bed and scrutinizing the stars.

  Philippe Starck

  Dream, Stars, Believe

• 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

• 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

• Despite its simple and humble design, Zik is certainly today one of our most successful products in terms of intuitive ergonomics.

  Philippe Starck

  Humble, Successful, Simple

• 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.

• Design is a dreadful form of expression

  Philippe Starck

  Expression, Design, Form

• 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.

  Philippe Starck

  Real, Fighting, Issues

• Design is a tool to help the tribe.

  Philippe Starck

  Design, Tools, Tribes

• 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.

• Design does not really interest me

  Philippe Starck

  Design, Doe, Interest

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