35 Quotes by Eva Zeisel

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

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

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.

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.

My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.

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

Beautiful things make people happy.

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

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