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..

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminati….

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 comme….

Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept..

When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as….

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

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..

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

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

If you think of beautiful things, you’re not sad..

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

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….

The pleasure of making things beautiful or useful involves your feelings as well as your thinking. When your original sketch evolves into a tangible,….

Beautiful things make people happy..

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 ….

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 frustrat….

The playful search for beauty..

I am a maker of useful things..

The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production pro….