If you think of beautiful things, you’re not sad.

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.

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

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

The playful search for beauty.

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.

When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as though it had been there all along.