---
title: "24 Artist Quotes By Warren MacKenzie"
description: "24 Artist quotes by Warren MacKenzie. Plus more from Warren MacKenzie and more Artist sayings from other authors."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54b/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_robert-von-neumann-taught-painting-and-w_768504.jpg"
---

> [Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/robert-von-neumann-taught-painting-and-when-i-finally-got-into-a/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54b/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_robert-von-neumann-taught-painting-and-w_768504.jpg)

> [ I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by \[Piet\] Mondrian and \[Theo\] van Doesburg and that sort of thing. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/i-was-a-very-hard-edged-geometric-painter-strongly-influenced-by-piet/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b8/warren-mackenzie-4654_geometric_i-was-a-very-hard-edged-geometric-painte_1502141.jpg)

> [So I very quickly stopped almost all decoration. I was interested in the three-dimensional form of the pots, but my decoration was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/so-i-very-quickly-stopped-almost-all-decoration-i-was-interested-in/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ec/warren-mackenzie-4654_decoration_so-i-very-quickly-stopped-almost-all-dec_1656034.jpg)

> [ \[Sculpturing\] didn't stick with me. I never felt I wanted to go on with that. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/sculpturing-didn-t-stick-with-me-i-never-felt-i-wanted-to-go-on-with/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d8/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_sculpturing-didn-t-stick-with-me-i-never_2648223.jpg)

> [There were a lot of artists in St. Ives. In fact, since the time of Whistler, St. Ives has been noted as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/there-were-a-lot-of-artists-in-st-ives-in-fact-since-the-time-of/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d68/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_there-were-a-lot-of-artists-in-st-ives-i_783161.jpg)

> [ I've been influenced by someone or \[English artists\] work. I mentioned Hans Coper as an example. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/i-ve-been-influenced-by-someone-or-english-artists-work-i-mentioned/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef0/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_i-ve-been-influenced-by-someone-or-engli_905460.jpg)

> [I thought, oh, I'm going to be a painter. And eventually my family had moved near Chicago, and when I graduated from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/i-thought-oh-i-m-going-to-be-a-painter-and-eventually-my-family-had/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a9/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_i-thought-oh-i-m-going-to-be-a-painter-a_748304.jpg)

> [ \[St. Ives\] is a wonderful place to live. It's a small fishing town and one can live there inexpensively. There's a sympathetic… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/st-ives-is-a-wonderful-place-to-live-it-s-a-small-fishing-town-and/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80d/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_st-ives-is-a-wonderful-place-to-live-it_1818515.jpg)

> [ I took a number of graphic courses, lithography and etching and wood engraving \[at Art Institute\]. And particularly as I got more… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/i-took-a-number-of-graphic-courses-lithography-and-etching-and-wood/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/116/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_i-took-a-number-of-graphic-courses-litho_1045016.jpg)

> [I started to do silk-screen in the early days of my painting training, due to a woman who taught art history at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/i-started-to-do-silk-screen-in-the-early-days-of-my-painting-training/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76f/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_i-started-to-do-silk-screen-in-the-early_2719977.jpg)

> [I found out later on that was not true, that life drawing tells you a great deal about rhythm, about the structure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/i-found-out-later-on-that-was-not-true-that-life-drawing-tells-you-a/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/363/warren-mackenzie-4654_accents_i-found-out-later-on-that-was-not-true-t_73257.jpg)

> [In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/in-fact-i-believe-to-a-certain-extent-a-person-today-who-starts-with/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a19/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_in-fact-i-believe-to-a-certain-extent-a_505302.jpg)

> [ At that \[childhood\] time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/at-that-childhood-time-of-course-if-you-were-involved-in-art-it-was/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd4/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_at-that-childhood-time-of-course-if-you_510704.jpg)

> [When I was in school in the Art Institute, we had several problems during the course of the time we were taking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/when-i-was-in-school-in-the-art-institute-we-had-several-problems/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08e/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_when-i-was-in-school-in-the-art-institut_1991569.jpg)

> [Eventually I gave up teaching at the St. Paul Gallery because of disagreements with the philosophy of that museum, and I got…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/eventually-i-gave-up-teaching-at-the-st-paul-gallery-because-of/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf5/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_eventually-i-gave-up-teaching-at-the-st_769821.jpg)

> [In working on a drawing or a painting, one can rework and rework and rework and change ideas until you get it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/in-working-on-a-drawing-or-a-painting-one-can-rework-and-rework-and/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd4/warren-mackenzie-4654_clay_in-working-on-a-drawing-or-a-painting-on_2131037.jpg)

> [ There was a school in Chicago called the School of Design. This was started by \[Laszló\] Moholy-Nagy, and it was a wonderful… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/there-was-a-school-in-chicago-called-the-school-of-design-this-was/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/661/warren-mackenzie-4654_association_there-was-a-school-in-chicago-called-the_1912692.jpg)

> [Some years ago I was working on some forms which were vase forms with a fairly narrow base, and it was after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/some-years-ago-i-was-working-on-some-forms-which-were-vase-forms-with/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16b/warren-mackenzie-4654_bits_some-years-ago-i-was-working-on-some-for_61245.jpg)

> [I thought I was going to be able to use my painting ideas as decoration on pottery, but my painting did not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/i-thought-i-was-going-to-be-able-to-use-my-painting-ideas-as/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5d/warren-mackenzie-4654_able_i-thought-i-was-going-to-be-able-to-use_3158041.jpg)

> [I don't know, it's very difficult if you're in a strange country to just barge in and say, "Hello, I'm Warren MacKenzie,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/i-don-t-know-it-s-very-difficult-if-you-re-in-a-strange-country-to/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e82/warren-mackenzie-4654_accepting_i-don-t-know-it-s-very-difficult-if-you_309688.jpg)

> [If you take Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, their work didn't even relate to what we were trying to do, because they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/if-you-take-lucie-rie-and-hans-coper-their-work-didn-t-even-relate-to/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f02/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_if-you-take-lucie-rie-and-hans-coper-the_3007270.jpg)

> [ Bernard \[Leach\] knew Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, Johnny Wells. I can think of a number of people that… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/bernard-leach-knew-ben-nicholson-barbara-hepworth-terry-frost-peter/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a47/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_bernard-leach-knew-ben-nicholson-barbara_1834433.jpg)

> [ \[My pots \] are not like \[Hans\] Coper's at all, but the idea came from seeing catalogue of his work, although at… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/my-pots-are-not-like-hans-coper-s-at-all-but-the-idea-came-from/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/229/warren-mackenzie-4654_catalogues_my-pots-are-not-like-hans-coper-s-at-all_1639837.jpg)

> [ Alix \[MacKenzie\] was a looser, more linear painter, dealing with amoebic forms, let's say, close to \[Joan\] Miró as opposed to my… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/alix-mackenzie-was-a-looser-more-linear-painter-dealing-with-amoebic/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5af/warren-mackenzie-4654_exploration_alix-mackenzie-was-a-looser-more-linear_1568535.jpg)

## Other authors on Artist

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-oscar-wilde-72846.jpg) Oscar Wilde 231 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/oscar-wilde/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-pablo-picasso-73081.jpg) Pablo Picasso 193 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/pablo-picasso/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jerry-saltz-49147.jpg) Jerry Saltz 143 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/jerry-saltz/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-vincent-van-gogh-93793.jpg) Vincent Van Gogh 126 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/vincent-van-gogh/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-kehinde-wiley-1194.jpg) Kehinde Wiley 111 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/kehinde-wiley/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henri-matisse-41358.jpg) Henri Matisse 90 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/henri-matisse/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-robert-henri-79837.jpg) Robert Henri 88 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/robert-henri/)
- [Ralph Waldo Emerson 87 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/ralph-waldo-emerson/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-marcel-duchamp-63203.jpg) Marcel Duchamp 76 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/marcel-duchamp/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-gerhard-richter-38308.jpg) Gerhard Richter 75 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/gerhard-richter/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-robert-genn-79770.jpg) Robert Genn 74 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/robert-genn/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-seth-godin-84128.jpg) Seth Godin 73 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/seth-godin/)

## More by Warren MacKenzie

> [ \[Kathleen Blackshear\] just said, "Have you thought of looking at this?" and so on and so on and so on. And it was a… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/kathleen-blackshear-just-said-have-you-thought-of-looking-at-this-and/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

> [ Some years ago I was working on some forms which were vase forms with a fairly narrow base, and it was after \[Hans\] Coper… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/some-years-ago-i-was-working-on-some-forms-which-were-vase-forms-with/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

> [I found out later on that was not true, that life drawing tells you a great deal about rhythm, about the structure of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/i-found-out-later-on-that-was-not-true-that-life-drawing-tells-you-a/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

> [Remember, this is back in the '40s, and the idea of a museum being a place where interested people could come in direct contact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/remember-this-is-back-in-the-40s-and-the-idea-of-a-museum-being-a/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

> [ At the end of that two weeks Bernard \[Leach\] asked us if we would like to sit with him tending the kiln, the big… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/at-the-end-of-that-two-weeks-bernard-leach-asked-us-if-we-would-like/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

> [I got drafted into the army and by pure chance was pushed into a silk-screen shop at this camp where I was, because they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/i-got-drafted-into-the-army-and-by-pure-chance-was-pushed-into-a-silk/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

> [ \[In the Field Museum of Natural History\] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so forth, Greece.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/in-the-field-museum-of-natural-history-we-could-see-very-simple/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

> [Chicago is a wonderful area because it's blessed with a tremendous number of museums of various sorts, not only the Art Institute of Chicago…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/chicago-is-a-wonderful-area-because-it-s-blessed-with-a-tremendous/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

> [ It was a wonderful opportunity. And so for two and a half years we lived with \[Bernard\] Leach. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/it-was-a-wonderful-opportunity-and-so-for-two-and-a-half-years-we/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

> [ We thought \[with Alix MacKenzie\], if those are the kinds of pots from every culture that interest us, why would we think that it… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/we-thought-with-alix-mackenzie-if-those-are-the-kinds-of-pots-from/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

> [I went to the Chicago Art Institute, which was the best painting school in the area at that time. And I took painting classes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/i-went-to-the-chicago-art-institute-which-was-the-best-painting/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/it-was-there-that-we-really-first-came-in-contact-with-the-work-of/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

> [ Bernard \[Leach\] was making pots which were duplicates of his drawing, and that was a difference of approach, which I think is quite critical… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/bernard-leach-was-making-pots-which-were-duplicates-of-his-drawing/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

> [I don't know, it's very difficult if you're in a strange country to just barge in and say, "Hello, I'm Warren MacKenzie, and aren't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/i-don-t-know-it-s-very-difficult-if-you-re-in-a-strange-country-to/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

> [ \[Shoji\] Hamada seldom drew an exact drawing of a pot that he was going to make. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/shoji-hamada-seldom-drew-an-exact-drawing-of-a-pot-that-he-was-going/)

[Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/warren-mackenzie/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/warren-mackenzie/#itemlist",
            "name": "24 Artist Quotes By Warren MacKenzie",
            "numberOfItems": 24,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much the same way.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/robert-von-neumann-taught-painting-and-when-i-finally-got-into-a/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54b/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_robert-von-neumann-taught-painting-and-w_768504.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54b/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_robert-von-neumann-taught-painting-and-w_768504.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54b/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_robert-von-neumann-taught-painting-and-w_768504.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Robert von Neumann taught painting, and when I finally got into a painting class of his, he reacted in much…” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by [Piet] Mondrian and [Theo] van Doesburg and that sort of thing.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/i-was-a-very-hard-edged-geometric-painter-strongly-influenced-by-piet/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b8/warren-mackenzie-4654_geometric_i-was-a-very-hard-edged-geometric-painte_1502141.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b8/warren-mackenzie-4654_geometric_i-was-a-very-hard-edged-geometric-painte_1502141.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b8/warren-mackenzie-4654_geometric_i-was-a-very-hard-edged-geometric-painte_1502141.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I was a very hard-edged geometric painter, strongly influenced by [Piet] Mondrian and [Theo] van Doesburg…” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "So I very quickly stopped almost all decoration. I was interested in the three-dimensional form of the pots, but my decoration was nonexistent.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/so-i-very-quickly-stopped-almost-all-decoration-i-was-interested-in/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ec/warren-mackenzie-4654_decoration_so-i-very-quickly-stopped-almost-all-dec_1656034.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ec/warren-mackenzie-4654_decoration_so-i-very-quickly-stopped-almost-all-dec_1656034.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ec/warren-mackenzie-4654_decoration_so-i-very-quickly-stopped-almost-all-dec_1656034.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“So I very quickly stopped almost all decoration. I was interested in the three-dimensional form of the pots…” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "[Sculpturing] didn't stick with me. I never felt I wanted to go on with that.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/sculpturing-didn-t-stick-with-me-i-never-felt-i-wanted-to-go-on-with/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d8/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_sculpturing-didn-t-stick-with-me-i-never_2648223.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d8/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_sculpturing-didn-t-stick-with-me-i-never_2648223.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d8/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_sculpturing-didn-t-stick-with-me-i-never_2648223.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“[Sculpturing] didn't stick with me. I never felt I wanted to go on with that.” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "There were a lot of artists in St. Ives. In fact, since the time of Whistler, St. Ives has been noted as an artist colony.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/there-were-a-lot-of-artists-in-st-ives-in-fact-since-the-time-of/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d68/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_there-were-a-lot-of-artists-in-st-ives-i_783161.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d68/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_there-were-a-lot-of-artists-in-st-ives-i_783161.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d68/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_there-were-a-lot-of-artists-in-st-ives-i_783161.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“There were a lot of artists in St. Ives. In fact, since the time of Whistler, St. Ives has been noted as an…” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 6,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I've been influenced by someone or [English artists] work. I mentioned Hans Coper as an example.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/i-ve-been-influenced-by-someone-or-english-artists-work-i-mentioned/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef0/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_i-ve-been-influenced-by-someone-or-engli_905460.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef0/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_i-ve-been-influenced-by-someone-or-engli_905460.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef0/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_i-ve-been-influenced-by-someone-or-engli_905460.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I've been influenced by someone or [English artists] work. I mentioned Hans Coper as an example.” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 7,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I thought, oh, I'm going to be a painter. And eventually my family had moved near Chicago, and when I graduated from high school, I went to the Chicago Art Institute, and it was there that I thought, well, now I'm going to be a painter.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/i-thought-oh-i-m-going-to-be-a-painter-and-eventually-my-family-had/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a9/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_i-thought-oh-i-m-going-to-be-a-painter-a_748304.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a9/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_i-thought-oh-i-m-going-to-be-a-painter-a_748304.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a9/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_i-thought-oh-i-m-going-to-be-a-painter-a_748304.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I thought, oh, I'm going to be a painter. And eventually my family had moved near Chicago, and when I…” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 8,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "[St. Ives] is a wonderful place to live. It's a small fishing town and one can live there inexpensively. There's a sympathetic population of other artists, where you can exchange ideas, and it's quite rich in artistic thought.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/st-ives-is-a-wonderful-place-to-live-it-s-a-small-fishing-town-and/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80d/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_st-ives-is-a-wonderful-place-to-live-it_1818515.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80d/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_st-ives-is-a-wonderful-place-to-live-it_1818515.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80d/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_st-ives-is-a-wonderful-place-to-live-it_1818515.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“[St. Ives] is a wonderful place to live. It's a small fishing town and one can live there inexpensively…” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 9,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I took a number of graphic courses, lithography and etching and wood engraving [at Art Institute]. And particularly as I got more and more into ceramics, I thought, life drawing doesn't have anything to do with ceramics.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/i-took-a-number-of-graphic-courses-lithography-and-etching-and-wood/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/116/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_i-took-a-number-of-graphic-courses-litho_1045016.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/116/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_i-took-a-number-of-graphic-courses-litho_1045016.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/116/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_i-took-a-number-of-graphic-courses-litho_1045016.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I took a number of graphic courses, lithography and etching and wood engraving [at Art Institute]. And…” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 10,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I started to do silk-screen in the early days of my painting training, due to a woman who taught art history at the institute, Kathleen Blackshear. She was interested in silk screen and taught a class that I took.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/i-started-to-do-silk-screen-in-the-early-days-of-my-painting-training/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76f/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_i-started-to-do-silk-screen-in-the-early_2719977.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76f/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_i-started-to-do-silk-screen-in-the-early_2719977.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76f/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_i-started-to-do-silk-screen-in-the-early_2719977.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I started to do silk-screen in the early days of my painting training, due to a woman who taught art history…” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 11,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I found out later on that was not true, that life drawing tells you a great deal about rhythm, about the structure of a human being or any animate object, and this could be directly translated into thinking about proportion and accent, rhythm in a pot form.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/i-found-out-later-on-that-was-not-true-that-life-drawing-tells-you-a/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/363/warren-mackenzie-4654_accents_i-found-out-later-on-that-was-not-true-t_73257.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/363/warren-mackenzie-4654_accents_i-found-out-later-on-that-was-not-true-t_73257.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/363/warren-mackenzie-4654_accents_i-found-out-later-on-that-was-not-true-t_73257.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I found out later on that was not true, that life drawing tells you a great deal about rhythm, about the…” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 12,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting and no figure drawing, still-life drawing, various things, they miss a great deal.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/in-fact-i-believe-to-a-certain-extent-a-person-today-who-starts-with/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a19/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_in-fact-i-believe-to-a-certain-extent-a_505302.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a19/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_in-fact-i-believe-to-a-certain-extent-a_505302.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a19/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_in-fact-i-believe-to-a-certain-extent-a_505302.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no…” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 13,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "At that [childhood] time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting, because that's the only thing that was taught in the schools.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/at-that-childhood-time-of-course-if-you-were-involved-in-art-it-was/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd4/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_at-that-childhood-time-of-course-if-you_510704.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd4/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_at-that-childhood-time-of-course-if-you_510704.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd4/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_at-that-childhood-time-of-course-if-you_510704.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“At that [childhood] time, of course, if you were involved in art, it was going to be drawing and painting…” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 14,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "When I was in school in the Art Institute, we had several problems during the course of the time we were taking ceramic classes where we had to do a sculptural piece. And when I say a sculptural piece, it's nothing like what we conceive of now as a sculptural piece.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/when-i-was-in-school-in-the-art-institute-we-had-several-problems/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08e/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_when-i-was-in-school-in-the-art-institut_1991569.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08e/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_when-i-was-in-school-in-the-art-institut_1991569.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08e/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_when-i-was-in-school-in-the-art-institut_1991569.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“When I was in school in the Art Institute, we had several problems during the course of the time we were…” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 15,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Eventually I gave up teaching at the St. Paul Gallery because of disagreements with the philosophy of that museum, and I got a job at the University of Minnesota, which was very fortunate because it was a part-time job and that gave us a great deal of time in our studio to work together and to make the pots we wanted to make.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/eventually-i-gave-up-teaching-at-the-st-paul-gallery-because-of/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf5/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_eventually-i-gave-up-teaching-at-the-st_769821.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf5/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_eventually-i-gave-up-teaching-at-the-st_769821.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf5/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_eventually-i-gave-up-teaching-at-the-st_769821.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Eventually I gave up teaching at the St. Paul Gallery because of disagreements with the philosophy of that…” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 16,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "In working on a drawing or a painting, one can rework and rework and rework and change ideas until you get it the way you think is right at that time. With clay that's not possible. You either succeed the first time, or you should wad it up and start over again, because you can't mess around with the clay and still have it fresh.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/in-working-on-a-drawing-or-a-painting-one-can-rework-and-rework-and/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd4/warren-mackenzie-4654_clay_in-working-on-a-drawing-or-a-painting-on_2131037.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd4/warren-mackenzie-4654_clay_in-working-on-a-drawing-or-a-painting-on_2131037.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd4/warren-mackenzie-4654_clay_in-working-on-a-drawing-or-a-painting-on_2131037.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“In working on a drawing or a painting, one can rework and rework and rework and change ideas until you get…” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 17,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "There was a school in Chicago called the School of Design. This was started by [Laszló] Moholy-Nagy, and it was a wonderful school, but we [with Alix MacKenzie] didn't go to that school. We did have friends who went to that school and we would visit there often, and I'm sure it pushed me in my painting direction very strongly just by association.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/there-was-a-school-in-chicago-called-the-school-of-design-this-was/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/661/warren-mackenzie-4654_association_there-was-a-school-in-chicago-called-the_1912692.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/661/warren-mackenzie-4654_association_there-was-a-school-in-chicago-called-the_1912692.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/661/warren-mackenzie-4654_association_there-was-a-school-in-chicago-called-the_1912692.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“There was a school in Chicago called the School of Design. This was started by [Laszló] Moholy-Nagy, and it…” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 18,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Some years ago I was working on some forms which were vase forms with a fairly narrow base, and it was after [Hans] Coper had died that I saw an exhibition of his, a catalogue from an exhibition, and he was showing some forms which were made by cutting and joining a lot of different parts together to create what he called a spade form, which you can imagine looks a little bit like a shovel upside down.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/some-years-ago-i-was-working-on-some-forms-which-were-vase-forms-with/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16b/warren-mackenzie-4654_bits_some-years-ago-i-was-working-on-some-for_61245.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16b/warren-mackenzie-4654_bits_some-years-ago-i-was-working-on-some-for_61245.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16b/warren-mackenzie-4654_bits_some-years-ago-i-was-working-on-some-for_61245.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Some years ago I was working on some forms which were vase forms with a fairly narrow base, and it was after…” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 19,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I thought I was going to be able to use my painting ideas as decoration on pottery, but my painting did not translate into decoration on pottery. I thought it was going to, and in fact I made, while still in school, a plate with one of my paintings on it, and that's exactly what it was, it was a plate with a painting on it. It was not a decorated plate; it was just a painting superimposed over a three-dimensional ceramic form.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/i-thought-i-was-going-to-be-able-to-use-my-painting-ideas-as/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5d/warren-mackenzie-4654_able_i-thought-i-was-going-to-be-able-to-use_3158041.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5d/warren-mackenzie-4654_able_i-thought-i-was-going-to-be-able-to-use_3158041.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5d/warren-mackenzie-4654_able_i-thought-i-was-going-to-be-able-to-use_3158041.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I thought I was going to be able to use my painting ideas as decoration on pottery, but my painting did not…” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 20,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I don't know, it's very difficult if you're in a strange country to just barge in and say, \"Hello, I'm Warren MacKenzie, and aren't you happy to have me as a guest,\" you know? But artists did accept us and we remained friends for many, many years, many of them as long as they lived; like Lucie Rie and Hans Coper were very good friends, and it was wonderful.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/i-don-t-know-it-s-very-difficult-if-you-re-in-a-strange-country-to/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e82/warren-mackenzie-4654_accepting_i-don-t-know-it-s-very-difficult-if-you_309688.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e82/warren-mackenzie-4654_accepting_i-don-t-know-it-s-very-difficult-if-you_309688.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e82/warren-mackenzie-4654_accepting_i-don-t-know-it-s-very-difficult-if-you_309688.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I don't know, it's very difficult if you're in a strange country to just barge in and say, \"Hello, I'm…” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 21,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "If you take Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, their work didn't even relate to what we were trying to do, because they were moving in a different direction, both of them coming out of Europe and the Viennese school of design, which Lucie came from, and Coper learning from Lucie and then springing off on his own when she encouraged him to explore more widely. So he created his own work instead of just working for her and doing her forms. So that was a wonderful thing.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/if-you-take-lucie-rie-and-hans-coper-their-work-didn-t-even-relate-to/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f02/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_if-you-take-lucie-rie-and-hans-coper-the_3007270.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f02/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_if-you-take-lucie-rie-and-hans-coper-the_3007270.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f02/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_if-you-take-lucie-rie-and-hans-coper-the_3007270.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“If you take Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, their work didn't even relate to what we were trying to do, because…” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 22,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Bernard [Leach] knew Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, Johnny Wells. I can think of a number of people that we met there just because we were living with Bernard. Some of them became our friends, particularly the younger artists, but we were privileged to at least meet and talk with the older artists also. And they would come to dinner, and we would simply be included in the conversation, which was quite fascinating.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/bernard-leach-knew-ben-nicholson-barbara-hepworth-terry-frost-peter/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a47/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_bernard-leach-knew-ben-nicholson-barbara_1834433.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a47/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_bernard-leach-knew-ben-nicholson-barbara_1834433.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a47/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_bernard-leach-knew-ben-nicholson-barbara_1834433.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Bernard [Leach] knew Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, Johnny Wells. I can think…” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 23,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "[My pots ] are not like [Hans] Coper's at all, but the idea came from seeing catalogue of his work, although at the time we knew Hans, his work was nothing like that.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/my-pots-are-not-like-hans-coper-s-at-all-but-the-idea-came-from/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/229/warren-mackenzie-4654_catalogues_my-pots-are-not-like-hans-coper-s-at-all_1639837.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/229/warren-mackenzie-4654_catalogues_my-pots-are-not-like-hans-coper-s-at-all_1639837.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/229/warren-mackenzie-4654_catalogues_my-pots-are-not-like-hans-coper-s-at-all_1639837.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“[My pots ] are not like [Hans] Coper's at all, but the idea came from seeing catalogue of his work, although…” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 24,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Alix [MacKenzie] was a looser, more linear painter, dealing with amoebic forms, let's say, close to [Joan] Miró as opposed to my more static exploration of space.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Warren MacKenzie"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/alix-mackenzie-was-a-looser-more-linear-painter-dealing-with-amoebic/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5af/warren-mackenzie-4654_exploration_alix-mackenzie-was-a-looser-more-linear_1568535.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5af/warren-mackenzie-4654_exploration_alix-mackenzie-was-a-looser-more-linear_1568535.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5af/warren-mackenzie-4654_exploration_alix-mackenzie-was-a-looser-more-linear_1568535.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Alix [MacKenzie] was a looser, more linear painter, dealing with amoebic forms, let's say, close to [Joan]…” — Warren MacKenzie",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/warren-mackenzie/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/warren-mackenzie/",
            "name": "Artist Quotes by Warren MacKenzie",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/warren-mackenzie/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54b/warren-mackenzie-4654_artist_robert-von-neumann-taught-painting-and-w_768504.jpg"
            },
            "description": "24 Artist quotes by Warren MacKenzie. Plus more from Warren MacKenzie and more Artist sayings from other authors.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/warren-mackenzie/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/warren-mackenzie/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Artist",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "Warren MacKenzie",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/artist/warren-mackenzie/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```