The playful search for beauty.

- Eva Zeisel

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

- 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

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

- 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…

- Eva Zeisel

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

- Eva Zeisel

Beautiful things make people happy.

- 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 …

- 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…

- Eva Zeisel