The playful search for beauty.

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.

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

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

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

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