Hungarian - Designer | November 13, 1906 - December 30, 2011
Beautiful things make people happy.
Eva Zeisel
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When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.
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I am a maker of useful things.
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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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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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Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.
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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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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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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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My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.
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Art has more ego to it than what I do.
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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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