The playful search for beauty.

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.

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.

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.

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

I made the things particularly because I wanted them to see the world.