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Top 25 Eva Zeisel Quotes (2025 Update)

Eva Zeisel Quote: “Beautiful things make people happy.”

1. “Beautiful things make people happy.”

Eva Zeisel Quote: “If you think of beautiful things, you’re not sad.”

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

Eva Zeisel Quote: “I am a maker of useful things.”

3. “I am a maker of useful things.”

Eva Zeisel Quote: “The playful search for beauty.”

4. “The playful search for beauty.”

Eva Zeisel Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

Eva Zeisel Quote: “Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.”

6. “Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.”

Eva Zeisel Quote: “Art has more ego to it than what I do.”

7. “Art has more ego to it than what I do.”

Eva Zeisel Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

Eva Zeisel Quote: “Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.”

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

Eva Zeisel Quote: “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...”

10. “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...”

Eva Zeisel Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

Eva Zeisel Quote: “When you have clay in your hands, it’s hard to avoid making birds.”

12. “When you have clay in your hands, it’s hard to avoid making birds.”

Eva Zeisel Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

Eva Zeisel Quote: “Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.”

14. “Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.”

Eva Zeisel Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

Eva Zeisel Quote: “My work is very bodily. It’s not a shell, but a body.”

16. “My work is very bodily. It’s not a shell, but a body.”

Eva Zeisel Quote: “When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.”

17. “When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.”

Eva Zeisel Quote: “When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as though it had been there all along.”

18. “When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as though it had been there all along.”

Eva Zeisel Quote: “My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people – writers, scientists, artists.”

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

Eva Zeisel Quote: “I made the things particularly because I wanted them to see the world.”

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

Eva Zeisel Quote: “My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.”

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

Eva Zeisel Quote: “I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.”

22. “I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.”

Eva Zeisel Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

Eva Zeisel Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

Eva Zeisel Quote: “I don’t know the difference between working and not working.”

25. “I don’t know the difference between working and not working.”

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