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Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you have a chair, it's like a sculpture of a person: it's alive. It's big. You can't miss it. It's a 'look at me!' item.

~Charles Pollock

Topics: Alive Big Chair Design Dish Every Industrial Insignificant Item Like Look Me Miss Other Person Piece Pot Sculpture Something You

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I do a lot of work on computers, but I am so practiced in drawing that I can draw it full size, and you can take the measurements off my drawings. It's like drafting, but it's a work of art - a really beautiful drawing.

~Charles Pollock

Topics: Am Art Beautiful Computers Drafting Draw Drawing Drawings Full Like Lot Measurements Off Practiced Really Size Take Work You I Am I Can

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A chair, it's like a sculpture. It starts as a thought and then becomes an idea, something I might think about for years. When the time is right, I express it on paper, usually as a simple line in space. Finally, it takes shape.

~Charles Pollock

Topics: About Becomes Chair Express Finally Idea Like Line Might Paper Right Sculpture Shape Simple Something Space Starts Takes Then Think Thought Time Years

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Most industrial designers do a bottle or a pen or a computer - things that go right past your eye. When you see a chair, it's almost like a person. It's this great big thing in front of you. It hits you more.

~Charles Pollock

Topics: Almost Big Big Thing Bottle Chair Computer Designers Eye Front Go Great Hits Industrial Like More Most Past Pen Person Right See Thing Things You Your

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I want people to love to sit in my chairs. You gotta want the people to buy it because they love it.

~Charles Pollock

Topics: Because Buy Chairs Gotta Love People Sit To Love Want You

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Most designers work up to a peak. They do some great stuff, and then it's just junk.

~Charles Pollock

Topics: Designers Great Great Stuff Junk Just Most Peak Some Stuff Then Up Work

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To keep the edge, you just keep doing something new. I'm not gonna say that working is easy, but while I'm doing it, I'm just a happy little moron - that's how my girlfriend describes me. The fact that nothing might happen with those things is not the point. The point is, I'm doing new things, and I have a good feeling in my soul.

~Charles Pollock

Topics: Doing Easy Edge Fact Feeling Girlfriend Gonna Good Good Feeling Happen Happy How Just Keep Little Me Might Moron My Soul New New Things Nothing Point Say Something Something New Soul Things Those While Working You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: December 25th, 1902

Died: May 8th, 1988

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