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.

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.

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

I am a maker of useful things.

Art has more ego to it than what I do.

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

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.