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The playful search for beauty.
Eva Zeisel / Industrial Designer
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I am a maker of useful things.
Eva Zeisel / Industrial Designer
Makers
Useful Things
Maker
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Beautiful things make people happy.
Eva Zeisel / Industrial Designer
Beautiful
Beautiful Things
Making People Happy
People
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Art has more ego to it than what I do.
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Art
Ego
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If you think of beautiful things, you’re not sad.
Eva Zeisel / Industrial Designer
Beautiful
Beautiful Things
Thinking
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My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.
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Body
Shells
Bodily
Shell
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Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.
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Aesthetic
Commerce
Novelty
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My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.
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Design
Eye
Hands
Attract
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I don't know the difference between working and not working.
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Differences
Knows
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When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.
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Thinking
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When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.
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Bird
Clay
Hands
Avoid
Making
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I made the things particularly because I wanted them to see the world.
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Made
Wanted
World
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Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.
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Clay
Hands
Woods
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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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Design
Home
Men
Men Women Home
Concept
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I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.
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Be Kind
Grotesque
Shock
Be Happy
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My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.
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Artist
Berlin
Elegant
Hundred
My Time
Party
People
Life Time People
Life Time My Life
Parties
Scientists
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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.
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Hands
Museums
Thinking
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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 / Industrial Designer
Designer
Order
Painter
Pottery
Support
Began
Craft
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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.
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Airports
Children
Mother
Village
Airport
Indies
Remote
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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.
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Aesthetic
Commerce
Designer
Novelty
Want
Concept
Industrial
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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 it had been there all along.
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Finished
Happened
Looks
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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.
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Attractive
Designer
Doe
Function
Solutions
Use
Equally
Production
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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.
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Design
Century
Communicate
Curves
Designer
Expressive
Harder
Made
Modernism
Vocabulary
Against
Through
Curve
Emotions
Straight
Limited
Ornament
Rebelling
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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.
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Creativity
Mean
Yield
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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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Sister
Brother
Cousin
Mother
Salt
Birdie
Brother And Sister
Pepper
Sets
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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.
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Beautiful
Heart
Thinking
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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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