My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

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.

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

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.

Beautiful things make people happy.

Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

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.