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

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.

To be different is a negative motive, and no creative thought or created thing grows out of a negative impulse. A negative impulse is always frustrating. And to be different means ‘not like this’ and ‘not like that.’ And the ‘not like’—that’s why postmodernism, with the prefix of ‘post,’ couldn’t work. No negative impulse can work, can produce any happy creation. Only a positive one.

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

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.

When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.