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 don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.

Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.

Beautiful things make people happy.

My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.

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

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

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.

He who has a question will always be able to find the answer.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

You grimy as birds shittin' on the top of ya Fords.

Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

Matter is the evolution of energy. First there is thought, then there is thought form, and then there is matter. Matter is only thought that has been thought upon by more.

Discipline is the foundation upon which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

Time, that aged nurse, Rocked me to patience.

Sin is essentially a departure from God.

I have a great family, good friends, a nice girlfriend, my own house. I have got everything how I want it to be.

King Mickey- "Even in the Darkest of Darkness, there is always a Light".