Eva Zeisel Quotes

Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.

I like to build things. I like to do things.

What people can excel our Northern and New England brethren in skill, invention, activity, energy, perseverance, and enterprise?

I enjoy building more than managing.

So much of my background is about making: physically doing it myself.

I always knew I wanted to create. I used to sit in my room for hours drawing and making things. I once got into trouble for cutting up my mother's lampshades to make a dress. I was three.

There's something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

I like building.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.

I like working with my hands. It feels good to build something yourself.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

As far back as I remember, and earlier, I was an artisan, a maker and doer. Mechanically minded, my parents said.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman.

There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff.

Pretty much all of my inventions come about the same way. I have an everyday problem or something that I'm too lazy to do, so I make a machine that does it for me.

I've always loved creating things with my hands.

I enjoy making and creating things.

I just like building stuff.