Home Quotes by Eva Zeisel

When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as…

— Eva Zeisel

The playful search for beauty.

— Eva Zeisel

My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

— Eva Zeisel

My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.

— Eva Zeisel

I don't know the difference between working and not working.

— Eva Zeisel

Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.

— Eva Zeisel

Beautiful things make people happy.

— Eva Zeisel

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…

— Eva Zeisel

I am a maker of useful things.

— Eva Zeisel

If you think of beautiful things, you’re not sad.

— Eva Zeisel

I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.

— Eva Zeisel

When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.

— Eva Zeisel