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

Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.

To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always frustrating. And to be different means ‘not like this’ and ‘not like that.’ And the ‘not like’—that’s why postmodernism, with the prefix of ‘post,’ couldn’t work. No negative impulse can work, can produce any happy creation. Only a positive one.

I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

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.