"To be different is a negative motive, and……" — Eva Zeisel
"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 frustrating. And to be different means ‘not like this’ and ‘not like that.’ And the ‘not like’—that’s why postmodernism, with the prefix of ‘post,’ couldn’t work. No negative impulse can work, can produce any happy creation. Only a positive one."
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24 Quotes by Eva Zeisel
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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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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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Art has more ego to it than what I do.
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