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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.