35 Quotes by Eva Zeisel

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Art has more ego to it than what I do.

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

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