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.
The playful search for beauty. - Eva Zeisel
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,… - 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,…
If you think of beautiful things, you’re not sad. - Eva Zeisel
If you think of beautiful things, you’re not sad.
When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds. - Eva Zeisel
When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.
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… - Eva Zeisel
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…
My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye. - Eva Zeisel
My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.
Beautiful things make people happy. - Eva Zeisel
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 … - 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 …
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… - Eva Zeisel
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…
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