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Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.
- Eva Zeisel
#Design
#Home
#Men
#Things
#Women
I don't know the difference between working and not working.
- Eva Zeisel
#Between
#Difference
#Know
#Working
I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.
- Eva Zeisel
#Be Happy
#Be Kind
#Happy
#Never
#Shock
My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.
- Eva Zeisel
#Attract
#Eye
#Hand
#Meant
#Well
If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.
- Eva Zeisel
#Craft
#Learned
#Myself
#Order
#Support
Art has more ego to it than what I do.
- Eva Zeisel
#Art
#Ego
#More
#Than
My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.
- Eva Zeisel
#Bodily
#Body
#Shell
#Very
#Work
My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.
- Eva Zeisel
#Life
#My Life
#My Time
#People
#Time
I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.
- Eva Zeisel
#Design
#Like
#Mother
#Relationship
#Salt
The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions.
- Eva Zeisel
#Attractive
#Follow
#Process
#Understand
When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.
- Eva Zeisel
#Avoid
#Birds
#Clay
#Hands
#Hard
Beautiful things make people happy.
- Eva Zeisel
#Beautiful Things
#Beautiful
#People
When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.
- Eva Zeisel
#Design
#Gift
#Somebody
#Something
#Think
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.
- Eva Zeisel
#Against
#Design
#Emotions
#Made
#Through
When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.
- Eva Zeisel
#Children
#Mother
#Restaurant
#Village
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