Top 32 Eva Zeisel Quotes
#1. Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
Wayne W. Dyer
#2. 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.
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#3. Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into the nonacceptable, from respectability into the criminal community of the monster who was an enemy to the people.
Marguerite Young
#4. 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.
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#5. 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. Negative impulses are frustrating. They're the opposite of creativity, and they never yield good ideas ...
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#6. Art has more ego to it than what I do.
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#7. Beautiful things make people happy.
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#8. You are remembered, he said, prophetically, for the rules you break. I
Phil Knight
#9. Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.
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#10. Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.
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#11. When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.
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#12. the behavior of parents, other parties, or both. Also, old videos or photos may be helpful in showing how comfortable and happy the children are with you as a parent, to counteract allegations that the children were always afraid of you. Submitting the Evidence to the Court
Randi Kreger
#13. The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.
Karl Rahner
#14. 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.
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#15. 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.
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#16. I love to be alone, and I did as a child as well, especially if I was outside.
Aurora Aksnes
#18. I fell over twice. It was loud. The garden was black outside our circle of light. The endless night stretched all around us, so we told each other that we had to be close together, together in the dark.
Laure Eve
#19. 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.
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#20. When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.
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#21. I made the things particularly because I wanted them to see the world.
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#22. I can look back at things I've done and said and worn and be completely humiliated by them, but I can never say it wasn't me. I feel really honored to say that.
Debby Ryan
#23. If you think of beautiful things, you're not sad.
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#25. I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.
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#26. I don't know the difference between working and not working.
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#27. Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Henry Ward Beecher
#28. 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.
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#29. My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.
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#30. I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish.
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#31. My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.
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#32. My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.
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