Philippe Starck Quotes

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.

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

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.

I have this mental sickness called creativity.

Design is a dreadful form of expression

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

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

Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary.

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

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.

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

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

Design is a tool to help the tribe.

Future is about dematerialisation.

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 like to open the doors to people's brain.

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

I am my brain's publisher.

Design does not really interest me

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

Getting to the heart of things, is never easy

For the organic food, the less it's designed, the better it is

Despite its simple and humble design, Zik is certainly today one of our most successful products in terms of intuitive ergonomics.

Providing a real way to deal with the urgent needs of environmental issues that is accessible to everyone is the new fight for the democratization of design.

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 wanted the bike to be able to go over all kinds of terrains and especially infinite and poetic territories.