Philippe Starck

"Today, the problem is not to produce more so you can sell more. The fundamental question is that of the product's right to exist. And it is the designer's right and duty, in the first place, to questi…"

"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, cr…"

"y main task when I was artistic director at Thomson for four years: to make the company virtuous. Not because there was a desire there to do evil, but because they had simply forgotten their purpose i…"

"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. …"

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

"I think if I directly design their apartment, I will not help them... If you are rich and famous and you buy an apartment and you don't know what to do, you will rent an interior designer. But in the …"

"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."

"I'm trying to move towards making objects which are honest, objects for non-consumers, for "modern rebels". Look, there are already millions of excellent chairs which are very comfortable, lamps which…"