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.

Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.

I am a maker of useful things.

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

The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions.

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