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Quotes from Starck — Philippe Starck

born 1949 France

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6 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)

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)

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)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Philippe Starck (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.