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

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

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.

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

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

Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

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.