Филипп Старк цитаты

„Журналист может совершить переворот одной статьей, политик – одним законом, рок-группа – одной песней.“

—  Филипп Старк

„Зачастую вещь может выглядеть агрессивной лишь потому, что она избавлена от всего случайного.“

—  Филипп Старк

„Невозможно оценить свет, не зная, что такое тьма, нельзя сполна насладиться жизнью, не зная, что впереди ждет смерть.“

—  Филипп Старк

„I am sort of a modern monk. My wife and I have a collection of cabins in the middle of nowhere, and we stay out of everything. We don’t go to dinners. We don’t go to cocktails. We don’t go to movies. We don’t watch TV. I don’t use my energy on other people. I just work and read. I live with myself in front of my white page. Of course, for much of the year I have to travel, speak to journalists, engineers, things like that, and it’s the worst. But from the 15th of June to the 15th of September, I live completely secluded, locked in one of my houses, working from 8 in the morning to 8 at night, or making my own biorhythm: work three hours, sleep 45 minutes, work three hours, sleep 45 minutes, for 24 hours, without eating. It’s a little sick. But I’m like Dr. Faust. I signed a contract with the devil to sell my life for creativity.“

—  Philippe Starck

Starck answer to the question: "What’s the secret to working so quickly and productively?"

„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.“

—  Philippe Starck

Starck (1994) Psychanalyse de l'object Starck" in: Le Monde Jan 27, 1994: Cited in: Philippe Patrick Starck (2003) Starck in words. p. 43

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

—  Philippe Starck

Starck (1986) in: New York Magazine Vol. 19, nr. 39 (Oct 6, 1986) p. 30 ( online http://books.google.nl/books?id=CecCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30)

„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.“

—  Philippe Starck

Design and destiny, 2007

„I think if I directly design their apartment, I will not help them… If you are rich and famous and you buy an apartment (house) and you don't know what to do, you will rent an interior designer. But in the end you will not make your own home. You will take the prefab life made by your interior designer and that is stupid. With ICON you will do it yourself.“

—  Philippe Starck

Starck (2006) in: "Starck Ting: March 2006" at starckting.blogspot.com, 2006-03-01

„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.“

—  Philippe Starck

Starck (1996) in: Graphis: International Journal for Graphic and Applied Art (1996) Vol 7; Vol 52. p. 7

„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) Design & technology. p. 33

„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.“

—  Philippe Starck

Attributed to Starck in: Wichert van Engelen (2007) Ideeėn genoeg. p. 25

„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.“

—  Philippe Starck

Starck cited in: Priscilla Boniface, Peter Jon Fowler (1993) Heritage and Tourism: In the Global Village. p. 161: Starck is talking about the Groninger Museum.

„I have refused everybody, including A-list celebrities.“

—  Philippe Starck

Starck (2006) in: "Starck Ting: March 2006" at starckting.blogspot.com, 2006-03-01

„Nobody is obliged to be genious but everybody is obliged to participate.“

—  Philippe Starck

Design and destiny, 2007

„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.“

—  Philippe Starck

D'un point de vue structurel, le design est totalement inutile... J'ai essayé de donner à mes produits un peu de sens et d'énergie. Mais même quand j'ai donné le meilleur de moi-même, c'était absurde.
Starck (2008) in: "Les doutes existentiels de Philippe Starck", Marie-Douce Albert, Le Figaro, March 28, 2008, p. 32

„It is important to inject love into the place where you live. It is not healthy to rent an interior designer to create a home for you because it is not good to live in another person's fantasy. People should select for themselves and stamp their own identity on a place. They should mix and match everything to make their own cocktail.“

—  Philippe Starck

Attributed to Starck in: Vinny Lee (2002) The Essential Guide to Decorating

„I manage by absence. I go to the office two, three days a month, and those are the worst days for me. So the people on my team do what they want, when they want, but the results have to be perfect, crystal perfect. I cannot accept laziness or something that is not intelligent or any type of delay. If we say we will deliver a project on the 20th at 5 PM, on the 20th at 5 PM we shall blow the minds of the people we’re presenting to.“

—  Philippe Starck

Starck answer to the question: "Are you a good boss?"

„God is the answer when we don't know the answer.“

—  Philippe Starck

Design and destiny, 2007

„You must have your own responsibility, your own consciousness.“

—  Philippe Starck

Starck (2007) "Starck speaks: Politics, Pleasure and Play" in: The New Architectural Pragmatism William S. Saunders ed. p. 36