"I don't like to design single objects. I……" — Eva Zeisel
"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."
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24 Quotes by Eva Zeisel
Eva Zeisel has 24 quotes on this site.
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Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.
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I made the things particularly because I wanted them to see the world.
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If you think of beautiful things, you’re not sad.
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The pleasure of making things beautiful or useful involves your feelings as well as your thinking. When your original sketch…
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To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse.…
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When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly,…
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When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.
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My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.
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I don't know the difference between working and not working.
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When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.
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Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, Â plaster or clay.
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Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.
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More Birdie Quotes
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The last time I played golf with President Ford he hit a birdie. And an eagle, a moose, an elk,…
— Bob Hope
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The thing I was most proud of about today's round was that on this course everybody is going to make…
— Phil Mickelson
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I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. I wanted…
— Michael Stuhlbarg
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In 1957, 'West Side Story' had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; 'Bye Bye Birdie,'…
— John Lahr
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We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York…
— Margot Kidder
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Birdie is amazing and such an incredible child and I'm having such a great time being a mom but I…
— Busy Philipps
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We didn't name Birdie before she was born. When she came out I said, 'I think we gotta go with…
— Busy Philipps
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A bird in the open never looks Like its picture in the birdie books - Or if it once did,…
— Ogden Nash
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I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an…
— Gerald R. Ford
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Some birdies were about a family with hardships. Other days, birdie was a selfless teacher. And birdie from before is…
— Kim Su-mi
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When I auditioned for 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway, Gower Champion said, 'You've got the job!' I said, 'Mr. Champion,…
— Dick Van Dyke
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Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and…
— Liza Minnelli
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