My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.

My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.

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

The playful search for beauty.

I am a maker of useful things.

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

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.