All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
The other day I started to take a course in psycho-ceramics. What is psycho-ceramics? It's the study of crackpots. — Joey Bishop Copy Share Image
We both [with Alixandra Kolesky MacKenzie] got into ceramics, you might say, by the back door. Looking back on it, I think… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I can see hope inside it." Rachel ran her fingers over the ceramic designs. "So fragile. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class. — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
I came up to New York at 20 with a suitcase and a ceramic tiger. That was my one piece of furniture… — Rex Smith Copy Share Image
I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
I read up a lot about ceramics and collect them, but when you make something, it's very difficult to like it. I… — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It… — Isamu Noguchi Copy Share Image
[ Bernard] Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I took a number of graphic courses, lithography and etching and wood engraving [at Art Institute]. And particularly as I got more… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows,… — Poppy Delevingne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The wife picked out ceramic tile for floor covering, not realizing that cost was determined by square foot, not square yard like… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
[Bernard Leach] was an incredible draftsman, and at the end of breakfast time, for instance, he would push his plate back, and… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“I grew up watching my father make plates that featured penises as centerpieces. Pink, proud, and stiff, encircled by cerulean Greek key,… — Royal Young Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the middle of my second year at school, in 1943, I got drafted into the army, was gone for three years,… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered. — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
Grottaglie itself is really famous for its figurative and 'splatter' paint ceramics - the figurative motifs are absolutely beautiful and the workshops… — Alice Levine Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind of person who has tall stacks of beautiful ceramics in every corner of my cabinets. — Chris Morocco Copy Share Image
I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary. — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
When people say ceramics is therapeutic and seductive, I think it's really about the wheel. Nothing I've done has that feeling; I… — Francesca DiMattio Copy Share Image
There was this one lady in Colorado who made us something ceramic, where it could have been either a ring holder or… — Ilana Glazer Copy Share Image
“At Marajó, Meggers and Evans soon noticed an oddity: the earliest traces of Marajóara culture were the most elaborate. As the centuries… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
When many people think of "new age" they think of crystals and purple decals and ceramic angels in people's windows and a… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar,… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
I think ceramics are so amazing because they're incredibly educational - you can buy something made in the 14th century, and it… — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
[Bernard Leach] talked about painting, but we never talked about ceramics in that evening. But at the end of the evening he… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I hadn't had any course work in ceramics. I had no courses in art education but I wasn't going to let this… — David C. Driskell 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
![“We both [with Alixandra Kolesky MacKenzie] got into ceramics, you might say, by the back door. Looking back on it, I think this was a very good thing.” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9a3/warren-mackenzie-4654_back-doors_we-both-with-alixandra-kolesky-mackenzie_838649.jpg)
![“[ Bernard] Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher and had only gotten into ceramics by chance when he was in Japan trying to teach the Japanese how to do etching, which, as he said, they were not ready for yet.” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9e6/warren-mackenzie-4654_ceramics_bernard-leach-was-the-one-who-taught-us_830509.jpg)
![“What I didn't know at the time [of my scholarship] was that the ceramic class was not really a very good class. This was many years ago and should not reflect on the conditions at the Art Institute of Chicago to this day, but we didn't know anything and we started to learn about how to work with…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b8d/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_what-i-didn-t-know-at-the-time-of-my-sch_1457260.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/116/warren-mackenzie-4654_art_i-took-a-number-of-graphic-courses-litho_1045016.jpg)
![“[Bernard Leach] was an incredible draftsman, and at the end of breakfast time, for instance, he would push his plate back, and he'd pull an old scrap of paper out of his pocket and a little stub of a pencil, and he'd begin to make small drawings, about an inch and a half, two inches tall, of pots…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d2b/warren-mackenzie-4654_beautiful_bernard-leach-was-an-incredible-draftsma_1663627.jpg)
![“In the middle of my second year at school, in 1943, I got drafted into the army, was gone for three years, and when I came back, I tried to get into the painting classes which I wanted, but because of all the returned GIs [the GI Bill], everyone was in school and the classes were all full. So I…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e62/warren-mackenzie-4654_army_in-the-middle-of-my-second-year-at-schoo_674284.jpg)
![“[Bernard Leach] talked about painting, but we never talked about ceramics in that evening. But at the end of the evening he said to us, "Well," he said, "I've changed my mind, and if you want, you can come back a year from now and apprentice in the workshop."” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1bf/warren-mackenzie-4654_apprentice_bernard-leach-talked-about-painting-but_1965345.jpg)
