Philippe Starck

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

"This museum is like a ghost train—at every stage you find a surprise. Intuition prepares you for enlightenment, not audio-visual lectures. Theres less to read, more to fee."

"You must have your own responsibility, your own consciousness."

"God is the answer when we dont know the answer."

"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 persons 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."

"The world wants water not taps, the world wants warmth not a heater."

"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 dont 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."

"Dun point de vue structurel, le design est totalement inutile... Jai essayé de donner à mes produits un peu de sens et dénergie. Mais même quand jai donné le meilleur de moi-même, cétait absurde."

"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.”"

"Nobody is obliged to be genious but everybody is obliged to participate."

"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."

"The enduring influence of Memphis can be seen in the groundbreaking work of French designer Philippe Starck. His prescient 1984 Café Costes interior combines futurism and nostalgia—a mix which resonates in subsequent projects like the 1988 Royalton Hotel in New York, and the long-legged lemon juicer he designed in 1990."