And as far as I know about Alix's [MacKenzie] work, I don't believe she ever did any sculptural work at all. It… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“Some people were like pottery. They had been tested in a fire just hot enough to make them capable, but perhaps not… — Heather Burch Copy Share Image
Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist and people who appreciate truly beautiful… — Clarice Cliff Copy Share Image
When I was 16 I got a school holiday job at Minton's pottery factory in Staffordshire, packing plates. For a month's work,… — Anthea Turner Copy Share Image
The craze for the 'taant er sari,' terracotta pottery or Bengal jewellery will never wane because Bengal portrays unparalleled diversity. — Sharmila Tagore Copy Share Image
If you took a cracked pot and you cracked that cracked pot, you'd be approaching the level of cracked pottery we are… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Ideal date is doing something new, either hiking a new place I've not been, or learning something weird and new like pottery…… — Emmy Rossum Copy Share Image
We got a great benefit from our contact with those people [Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, Richard Batram] and met people that we… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
Rentals sank, living rose. I could not afford help. I must be owner, agent, landlady and janitor. I loathed landladying... I tried… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
In searching for further training we turned to England and Bernard Leach. We thought since we had responded to his book so… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
My mum was into pottery and embroidery, very artistic, and she knew some people from the college, which I think was how… — Jamie Hewlett Copy Share Image
Friends of Bernard's [Leach] came to visit, and when we went to London, we were given introductions to people like Lucie Rie,… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I don't like the idea of things being off-limits to kids - like a fancy sitting room where they can't touch anything.… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
We asked a lot of questions and we watched everyone who was working in the studio. And we had an opportunity to… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
We were working from very exact models and dimensions and weights of clay to make these pots which had been designed some… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
The great cry that rises from our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When I do entertain, in the summer, which is rare, I receive my guests on the front porch, set up wicker trays… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
As we cleared the passage we found mixed with the rubble broken potsherds, jar seals, and numerous fragments of small objects; water… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
It was there that we really first came in contact with the work of Shoji Hamada, who was Bernard's best friend from… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Then they have the audacity to go shopping and pick out their own gifts. I want to know who the first person… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be able to use my painting ideas as decoration on pottery, but my painting did not… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I have no policy for my collection. For example, there's a bunch of meteorite [on the windowsill in my studio]. I touch… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
I'm trolling through the recesses of my mind for the things I did with my kids when they used to like to… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
If [Bernard Leach] didn't like the drawing, he'd X it out and do another one and change the form a little bit.… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Alix [MacKenzie], on the other hand, found that her painting would translate much more readily into decoration, and she could play with… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Looking back on it now, I understand why that was not possible [to express ourselves], because the pottery employed a dozen people,… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
I do remember that when we left [Bernard Leach] after two and a half years, we went home on a boat again… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
When we worked at the pottery, we did learn to make pots, that is, the physical act of making the pot. We… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown… — Augustus Pitt Rivers Copy Share Image
There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The presence of industrial quantities of Byzantine pottery dating from the sixth century AD on the headland at Tintagel, Chinese silk in… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Some crafts have been practiced for centuries. These crafts were created using skills passed from generation to generation, and were motivated by… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
We thought [with Alix MacKenzie], if those are the kinds of pots from every culture that interest us, why would we think… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
![“And as far as I know about Alix's [MacKenzie] work, I don't believe she ever did any sculptural work at all. It was always pottery.” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8bb/warren-mackenzie-4654_believe_and-as-far-as-i-know-about-alix-s-macken_3215982.jpg)
![“We got a great benefit from our contact with those people [Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, Richard Batram] and met people that we wouldn't have probably met if we had simply worked at the pottery.” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/997/warren-mackenzie-4654_benefits_we-got-a-great-benefit-from-our-contact_1723967.jpg)
![“Friends of Bernard's [Leach] came to visit, and when we went to London, we were given introductions to people like Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, Richard Batram. All these people were, let's say, made available to us by a friendship with Leach. In addition there was a potter's group - what was it called?…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/dd3/warren-mackenzie-4654_available_friends-of-bernard-s-leach-came-to-visit_2626681.jpg)
![“We were working from very exact models and dimensions and weights of clay to make these pots which had been designed some 10 or 12 years previous to our arriving [at Bernard's Leach studio]. And we, being, I guess you would say young, arrogant Americans, thought that we ought to be able to somehow…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3ce/warren-mackenzie-4654_able_we-were-working-from-very-exact-models-a_2464088.jpg)
![“It was there that we really first came in contact with the work of Shoji Hamada, who was Bernard's best friend from Japan, who had come from Japan back to England with [Bernard] Leach when Leach was establishing his pottery.” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7e4/warren-mackenzie-4654_best-friend_it-was-there-that-we-really-first-came-i_295653.jpg)
![“I have no policy for my collection. For example, there's a bunch of meteorite [on the windowsill in my studio]. I touch it and I feel the energy from the universe. I have a 1/1,000th of a fragment of stone-age tools and pottery and debris. I can learn many things from my collection. Actually, the…” quote by Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/947/hiroshi-sugimoto-14343_age_i-have-no-policy-for-my-collection-for-e_266371.jpg)
![“If [Bernard Leach] didn't like the drawing, he'd X it out and do another one and change the form a little bit. And when he was all done, he would stuff these pieces of paper in his pocket and go off to the pottery, and when he wanted to make pots, he would then take these out and he'd begin to…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/34d/warren-mackenzie-4654_bits_if-bernard-leach-didn-t-like-the-drawing_1007603.jpg)
![“Alix [MacKenzie], on the other hand, found that her painting would translate much more readily into decoration, and she could play with the spacing and the intensity of imagery on the form in a way which I could not. So that when we established our pottery, I was most unhappy with my decoration.” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/150/warren-mackenzie-4654_decoration_alix-mackenzie-on-the-other-hand-found-t_1028664.jpg)
![“Looking back on it now, I understand why that was not possible [to express ourselves], because the pottery employed a dozen people, not all of whom are making pots. And these people had families, children, and they had to have a wage that would allow them to raise their family and they had to get…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7c6/warren-mackenzie-4654_afternoon_looking-back-on-it-now-i-understand-why_1308684.jpg)
![“I do remember that when we left [Bernard Leach] after two and a half years, we went home on a boat again - this was before air travel became really easy - and Alix [MacKenzie] turned to me and she said, "You know, that was a great two years of training, but that's not the way we're going to run…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/566/warren-mackenzie-4654_air_i-do-remember-that-when-we-left-bernard_1214561.jpg)
![“We thought [with Alix MacKenzie], if those are the kinds of pots from every culture that interest us, why would we think that it should be any different in mid-North America 20th century? And we decided then that our work would center around that sort of utilitarian pottery, and that's what I've…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/db7/warren-mackenzie-4654_20th-century_we-thought-with-alix-mackenzie-if-those_265640.jpg)
