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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'.

— Philippe Starck Starck as cited in: David Barlex (2007)

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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.

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