Philippe Starck Quotes

My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations.

I have this mental sickness called creativity.

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.

You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.

Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary.

Design is a dreadful form of expression

No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.

Subversive, ethical, ecological, political, humorous ... this is how I see my duty as a designer.

Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.

Design is a tool to help the tribe.

Freedom is the only style. That is why I never speak about beauty or beautiful products but "good products"... Nowadays, we have to face so many challenges,...so it is not really a priority to care for beauty. The only way for us is to focus on an ethic and ecological behaviour.

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.

Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production.

I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain sends me a product.

I like to open the doors to people's brain.

Future is about dematerialisation.

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.

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.

Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence.

The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is

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.

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.

I am my brain's publisher.

In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant.