Home › Authors › Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck Quotes
born 1949 France
Philippe Patrick Starck (born January 18, 1949) is a French product designer, whose designs range from interior designs to mass-produced consumer goods such as toothbrushes, chairs, and even houses.
Random Philippe Starck quote
13 quotes
You must have your own responsibility, your own consciousness.
Starck (2007)
I have refused everybody, including A-list celebrities.
Starck (2006)
Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.
Starck (1986)
The world wants water not taps, the world wants warmth not a heater.
to Starck in: Iain Ellwood (2002)
This museum is like a ghost train—at every stage you find a surprise. Intuition prepares you for enlightenment, not audio-visual lectures. There's less to read, more to fee.
From a structural point of view, design is totally useless... I tried to give my products a little sense and energy. But even when I gave the best of myself, it was absurd.
Starck (2008)
My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design]. We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept'.
Starck as cited in: David Barlex (2007)
Nobody is obliged to be genious but everybody is obliged to participate.
God is the answer when we don't know the answer.
A toothbrush is 28 grams of matter, 28 francs to buy and it's made to get rid of scraps of meat from between the teeth. Every gram of matter must provide its service as best it can. My trade is to be a producer of fertile surprises, an opener of doors in people's head.
Starck (1994)
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.
Starck (1996)
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.”
I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brains send me a product... I am my brain's publisher.
to Starck in: Wichert van Engelen (2007)
Topics Philippe Starck is quoted on
Works