Eva Zeisel
Eva Zeisel
Eva Striker Zeiselwas a Hungarian-born American industrial designer known for her work with ceramics, primarily from the period after she migrated to the United States. Her forms are often abstractions of the natural world and human relationships. Work from throughout her prodigious career is included in important museum collections across the world. Zeisel declared herself a "maker of useful things"...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionDesigner
Date of Birth13 November 1906
beautiful people making-people-happy
Beautiful things make people happy.
beautiful thinking beautiful-things
If you think of beautiful things, you’re not sad.
beautiful heart thinking
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.
art ego
Art has more ego to it than what I do.
world made wanted
I made the things particularly because I wanted them to see the world.
home men design
Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.
hands woods clay
Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.
hands bird clay
When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.
differences knows
I don't know the difference between working and not working.
eye hands design
My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.
thinking design
When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.
looks finished ifs
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.
makers useful-things
I am a maker of useful things.
be-kind shock grotesque
I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.