The pleasure of making things beautiful or useful involves your feelings as well as your thinking. When your original sketch evolves into a tangible, three-dimensional object, your heart is anxiously following the process of your work. And the love involved in making it is conveyed to those for whom you made it.

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

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

Art has more ego to it than what I do.

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.

The playful search for beauty.