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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• Eva Zeisel:

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

• Eva Zeisel:

  Art has more ego to it than what I do.

• Eva Zeisel:

  I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy

• Eva Zeisel:

  Beautiful things make people happy.

• Eva Zeisel:

  I don't know the difference between working and not working.

• Eva Zeisel:

  The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production p

• Eva Zeisel:

  When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport resta

• Eva Zeisel:

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

• Eva Zeisel:

  My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

• Eva Zeisel:

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