Ceramics Quotes

Then there were the shabti, magical figurines that were supposed to come to life when summoned. A few months ago, I’d fallen…

— Rick Riordan

Ridiculous that some people feel superior to the gay minority. They're the only couples you'll ever find poking around for ceramics and…

— Richard Jeni

I can see hope inside it." Rachel ran her fingers over the ceramic designs. "So fragile.

— Rick Riordan

I came up to New York at 20 with a suitcase and a ceramic tiger. That was my one piece of furniture…

— Rex Smith

For me it's really important that the work here displays an aesthetic of decay along with the sunken boat with the broken…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

— Martha Stewart

I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create…

— Julie Andrews

My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows,…

— Poppy Delevingne

In the middle of my second year at school, in 1943, I got drafted into the army, was gone for three years,…

— Warren MacKenzie

All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats.

— Steven Wright

[ Bernard] Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher…

— Warren MacKenzie

We both [with Alixandra Kolesky MacKenzie] got into ceramics, you might say, by the back door. Looking back on it, I think…

— Warren MacKenzie

I took a number of graphic courses, lithography and etching and wood engraving [at Art Institute]. And particularly as I got more…

— Warren MacKenzie

I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.

— Bruce Chatwin

All the perks, all the benefits and advantages you may get for the rank or position you hold, they aren’t meant for…

— Simon Sinek

The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It…

— Isamu Noguchi

“I grew up watching my father make plates that featured penises as centerpieces. Pink, proud, and stiff, encircled by cerulean Greek key,…

— Royal Young

The other day I started to take a course in psycho-ceramics. What is psycho-ceramics? It's the study of crackpots.

— Joey Bishop

What I didn't know at the time [of my scholarship] was that the ceramic class was not really a very good class.…

— Warren MacKenzie

[Bernard Leach] was an incredible draftsman, and at the end of breakfast time, for instance, he would push his plate back, and…

— Warren MacKenzie

I was always doing films, but the ceramics didn't come until later. I did take ceramics in university, which gave me an…

— Marcel Dzama

The wife picked out ceramic tile for floor covering, not realizing that cost was determined by square foot, not square yard like…

— Jim Harrison

[Bernard Leach] talked about painting, but we never talked about ceramics in that evening. But at the end of the evening he…

— Warren MacKenzie

When I was in school in the Art Institute, we had several problems during the course of the time we were taking…

— Warren MacKenzie

He’s being held prisoner on a ceramic-lined cookie sheet in the oven,” Thomas said. “I figured he couldn’t jigger his way out…

— Jim Butcher