I don't want being a woman to be a factor, or being short to bea factor, or being Jewish to be a factor, or anything that makes you outside some design "norm"that I don't understand anyway. That makes me nervous.

The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.

I wasn't a very good illustrator so I became a designer.

I do different things. I'm a designer. I'm a painter.

Some people are in stultifying environments where there are rigid rules and rituals and they need that to thrive, where other people are just asphyxiated by stuff like that.

You can build an ordinary hot dog stand or you can build a spectacular one, and you can do it sometimes without that much difference in money - if somebody thinks about it.

I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more.