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I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.
Eva Gabor
Life
Happy
Smart
My Life
Ambition
Enough
Ruled
Stay
Been
Should
I made up my mind to be an actress when I was 4 years old.
Eva Gabor
Old
Mind
Made
Years
Up
Actress
I learned early that you only have so much energy to give. You have to spend it correctly.
Eva Gabor
You
Energy
Spend
Correctly
Give
Only
Learned
So Much Energy
Much
Early
After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?
Eva Gabor
Work
Done
After
Should
Suddenly
Actress
Why
Bona
Bona Fide
Treated
Beautiful things make people happy.
Eva Zeisel
Beautiful
Happy
People
Beautiful Things
Make
Things
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.
Eva Zeisel
Mother
Met
Market
Airport
Restaurant
Indies
Like
Remote
Felt
West
Children
Many
Village
Designs
When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.
Eva Zeisel
You
Birds
Clay
Making
Hands
Your
Hard
Avoid
My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.
Eva Zeisel
Eye
Attract
Well
Hand
Meant
Designs
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.
Eva Zeisel
Emotions
Communicate
Made
Design
Vocabulary
Through
Emphasized
Limited
Lines
Curve
Against
Modernism
Straight
Century
Rebelling
Expressive
Harder
Ornament
Designer
If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.
Eva Zeisel
Myself
Pottery
Support
Learned
Been
Began
Craft
Order
Painter
Designer
My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.
Eva Zeisel
Life
Time
People
My Life
Hundred
Berlin
Would
My Time
Writers
Most
Parties
Scientists
Artists
Elegant
I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.
Eva Zeisel
Be Happy
Happy
Be Kind
Kind
Something
Never
Audience
Shock
Wanted
Grotesque
I don't know the difference between working and not working.
Eva Zeisel
Between
Know
Difference
Working
My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.
Eva Zeisel
Work
Shell
Very
Bodily
Body
Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.
Eva Zeisel
Home
Women
Men
Design
Concept
How
Should
Use
Things
I am a maker of useful things.
Eva Zeisel
Maker
Am
Useful
Things
I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
Franz Liszt
Others
Find
Windmill
Like
Wagner
Beethoven
Led
Conductor
Little
Who
Works
Functions
Truth is a great flirt.
Franz Liszt
Truth
Great
Truth Is
Flirt
Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Franz Liszt
Great
Destiny
Sorrowful
Artist
Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.
Franz Liszt
World
Men
Worthless
Put
Sadly
Real
Prove
Test
Lacking
Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.
Franz Liszt
Better
Before
Mine
Variations
Written
Were
His
Than
The public is always good.
Franz Liszt
Good
Always
Public
Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.
Franz Liszt
Life
Art
Great
Religion
Light
Christ
Great Art
Remains
Divine
Shapes
Ideal
Toward
Supreme
Still
His
Stages
Which
Forms
Transitory
Serenity
Illuminates
In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
Franz Liszt
Music
Song
Dance
Hungary
Destined
Melody
Divided
Native
Naturally
Origin
The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.
Franz Liszt
Music
Power
Other
Sphere
Would
Rather
Gypsies
Without
Exist
Than
Improvisation
Any
Which
Belongs
A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
Franz Liszt
Theatre
Recognition
Indispensable
Through
Performance
First-Rate
Which
Initiative
Receives
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