André Starck+Progenitor Of Designer Philippe
Avions André Starck - Philippe Starck is the son of an airplane designer, André Starck. The elder Starck thought up new uses for old designs, taking existent fundamental avionic designs and improving them. This is the man under whose drafting table a young Philippe disassembled and reassembled mechanical items and rethought uses and construction. He was dismantling the machinery and putting it back together in his own way, much like his father. Starck, himself, has asserted that this is one of the reasons he is accustomed to redesigning our world.
From this foundation, Philippe Starck grew to be one of the most successful and admired designers worldwide.
And isn’t this the way of the human mind…
As talented and creative as we--the observers and admirers--may hold Philippe Starck, in the designer’s own mind, he has never reached the worthy levels of creative achievement attained by his father and others who have invented new things, new technologies, and new processes...or taken new careers.
In Starck’s own words:
From this foundation, Philippe Starck grew to be one of the most successful and admired designers worldwide.
And isn’t this the way of the human mind…
As talented and creative as we--the observers and admirers--may hold Philippe Starck, in the designer’s own mind, he has never reached the worthy levels of creative achievement attained by his father and others who have invented new things, new technologies, and new processes...or taken new careers.
In Starck’s own words:
"My father, André Starck, was an aircraft designer but he invented a lot of other things too. People are still using many of his inventions – things like lipstick tubes or non-slip coating. He invented loads of stuff but didn't file patents.
"I have often criticized people who take over the parent's business. But ultimately, even in my case it went more or less unnoticed. I did the same thing which is a bit sad, a step backwards. Nor am I exaggerating. It's infinitely more difficult to build a plane and get it to fly than to invent a chair and sit on it. In the normal course of things children should feel duty bound to do better than their parents. Not only did I invent nothing new, I even carried on with the same stock-in-trade and instead of staying in aviation, which would have taken me into higher spheres, I came down to earth to do easy things. It was not an easy way out, but I made easy things.
"I have always drawn and always been good at it. But I'm not an artist. It's a misuse of words. A lot of people think someone creative is necessarily an artist. It's not true at all. Artist is a label in a middle-class system of describing work, much as for plumbers, accountants or electricians. It doesn't mean you're creative. What gives [human] life meaning is the creativity which finds an outlet in everything. So some artists are creative, others not, and there are plumbers who display more creative flair than artists.
"If I hadn't become a designer, I would probably have been a writer or maybe a politician. When I did the Good Goods catalogue of non-products for non-consumers in tomorrow's moral market – in 1993 or 1995 – it was pretty much a pamphlet. The idea was that what mattered was not buying the goods but reading the catalogue. People made fun of me but it was a huge success: so many people signed up and wrote in that a major advertising firm suggested I should start a political party. But that's not really the way I see things."
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S✚arck Quotes: The Man & His Words (Confounding, Inspirational, Provocative, Hype)
"Tomorrow will be less"
"We are mutants"
"Love is an endangered species"
"We do not need to kill to survive"
"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."
"Good citizenship is avant-garde"
"We are God"
"God is dangerous"
"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. "
"Getting to the heart of things, is never easy"
"The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is"
"Freedom is the only style. That is why I never speak about beauty or beautiful products but 'good products'. Nowadays, we have so many challenges; it is not really a priority to care for beauty. The only way for us is to focus on an ethic and ecological behavior."
"What is most interesting to me, is mutation in general, our mutation and the creation that are derived. Including for example love, which is nothing more than an invented concept! "
"No one has to be a genius, but everybody has to participate"
"Just a pure dreamer. It is a very strange life, like a sort of luxurious modern monk."
"Future is about dematerialization."
"Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production."
"Design is a tool to help the tribe."
"Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence."
"Everyone must participate in the wonderful story of the mutation of our species."
"All the problems we have on earth come from our refusal to accept our mutation... We should embrace the beauty of this state of being. It's our intrinsic value"?
"I am inspired by the big story of our evolution. I do not do projects that don't fit in this big vision, meaning a project has to deserve to exist. One way to deserve to exist is to serve."
"I have this mental sickness called creativity"
"My interest in the environment has neither beginning nor end, is a state of mind."
"We are mutants"
"Love is an endangered species"
"We do not need to kill to survive"
"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."
"Good citizenship is avant-garde"
"We are God"
"God is dangerous"
"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. "
"Getting to the heart of things, is never easy"
"The more materiality there is, the less humanity there is"
"Freedom is the only style. That is why I never speak about beauty or beautiful products but 'good products'. Nowadays, we have so many challenges; it is not really a priority to care for beauty. The only way for us is to focus on an ethic and ecological behavior."
"What is most interesting to me, is mutation in general, our mutation and the creation that are derived. Including for example love, which is nothing more than an invented concept! "
"No one has to be a genius, but everybody has to participate"
"Just a pure dreamer. It is a very strange life, like a sort of luxurious modern monk."
"Future is about dematerialization."
"Elegance and honesty are two mandatory parameters for any human production."
"Design is a tool to help the tribe."
"Everywhere, I'm looking to reach elegance and intelligence."
"Everyone must participate in the wonderful story of the mutation of our species."
"All the problems we have on earth come from our refusal to accept our mutation... We should embrace the beauty of this state of being. It's our intrinsic value"?
"I am inspired by the big story of our evolution. I do not do projects that don't fit in this big vision, meaning a project has to deserve to exist. One way to deserve to exist is to serve."
"I have this mental sickness called creativity"
"My interest in the environment has neither beginning nor end, is a state of mind."