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

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Source : "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.

Philippe Starck

#Ideas Quotes #Design Quotes #Vision Quotes

“Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called jazz, there is a stepping-stone to all of these.”
“Love is repaid by love alone!”
“And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.”
“The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.”
“The movie not only about what story you're telling and who you're looking at. It's mostly about how you're telling it and how you're looking at it. And people who don't like it, who say, "Oh, it's not 'true' because you're looking at it in a stylized way" - it's a movie and it's fiction, so it's also a lot in the artistic direction that it is political.”
“I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do.”
“The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.”
“Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.”

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