Eva Zeisel Quotes

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• Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.
• I made the things particularly because I wanted them to see the world.
• If you think of beautiful things, you’re not sad.
• The pleasure of making things beautiful or useful involves your feelings as well as your thinking. When your original sketch evolves into a tangible, three-dimensional…
• To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always…
• When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as though…
• When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.
• My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.
• I don't know the difference between working and not working.
• When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.
• Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, Â plaster or clay.
• Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.
• Art has more ego to it than what I do.
• Beautiful things make people happy.
• I am a maker of useful things.
• I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.
• 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…
• My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.
• My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.
• I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not…

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