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" Art has more ego to it than what I do. "
Than
More
Ego
" Beautiful things make people happy. "
Beautiful
Happy
People
" I am a maker of useful things. "
Maker
Useful
Things
" 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. "
Myself
Want
Aesthetic
" I don't know the difference between working and not working. "
Difference
Working
Know
" 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. "
Mother
Child
Sister
" 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. "
Order
Craft
Myself
" I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind. "
Kind
Be Kind
Be Happy
" Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use. "
Home
Men
Things
" 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. "
Through
Vocabulary
Emotions
" My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye. "
Meant
Hand
Eye
" My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists. "
People
Elegant
Life
" My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body. "
Work
Shell
Very
" 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. "
Understand
Solutions
Process
" When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else. "
Design
Gift
Somebody
" 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. "
Mother
Village
Children
" When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds. "
Hard
Avoid
Hands
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