Beautiful things make people happy.

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.

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.

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.

When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.

Art has more ego to it than what I do.

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