Zeisel Quotes & Sayings

There is some kiss we want with the whole of our lives. — Rumi

Art has more ego to it than what I do. — Eva Zeisel

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 an aesthetic concept. — Eva Zeisel

You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller. — Kathryn Davis

If you think of beautiful things, you're not sad. — Eva Zeisel

Don't go looking at me like that because you'll wear your eyes out. — Emile Zola

I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period. — Karlie Kloss

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology. — Irvine Welsh

If you want to be creative, don't try to do something new. Doing something new means NOT doing what's been done before, and that's a negative impulse. Negative impulses are frustrating. They're the opposite of creativity, and they never yield good ideas ... — Eva Zeisel

Remember, benchmark performance
beta
can be had for virtually free; alpha is what active managers are paid to generate. — Paul McCulley

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

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

I am a maker of useful things. — Eva Zeisel

All our contemporaries ... had some big ideology to live for. Everybody thought he had to either fight in Spain or die for something else, and most of us had to be in prison for one reason or another. And then at the end it turns out that none of these great ideologies was worth your sacrificing anything for. Even doing personal good is very difficult to be absolutely sure about. It's very difficult to know exactly whether to live for an ideology or even to live for doing good. But there cannot be anything wrong in making a pot, I'll tell you. When making a pot you can't bring any evil into the world. - Eva Zeisel, ceramist. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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

Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay. — Eva Zeisel

We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don't teach boys to care about being likable. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons. All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The playful search for beauty. — Eva Zeisel

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 object, your heart is anxiously following the process of your work. And the love involved in making it is conveyed to those for whom you made it. — Eva Zeisel

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

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

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

When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds. — Eva Zeisel

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness. — Benjamin Franklin

I made the things particularly because I wanted them to see the world. — Eva Zeisel

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

A lot of people are joking about the Windows 10 error message that says 'Something Happened'. Well, that's not on me. My original idea was to not have any errors at all, and for the operating system to be called Windows RT ME One. — Satya Nadella

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

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

When you're little all the things that are quirky and weird about you and that people laugh at, you find out are the things that are going to get you through — Macy Gray

I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga. — Kajol

When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties! — Dennis Hopper

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

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

I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish. — Eva Zeisel

Beautiful things make people happy. — 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. — Eva Zeisel