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> [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/)

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> [ 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/)

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> [ Bernard \[Leach\] was, as I said , trained as a painter and an etcher. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/bernard-leach-was-as-i-said-trained-as-a-painter-and-an-etcher/)

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

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> [ If you didn't know what you were trying to do, \[Robert von Neumann\] wouldn't say a word. He would just turn and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/if-you-didn-t-know-what-you-were-trying-to-do-robert-von-neumann/)

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

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> [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/)

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> [ \[ Bernard\] Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/bernard-leach-was-the-one-who-taught-us-that-because-he-too-had/)

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

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> [I went to the Chicago Art Institute, which was the best painting school in the area at that time. And I took…](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/)

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> [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/)

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> [ \[Bernard Leach\] talked about painting, but we never talked about ceramics in that evening. But at the end of the evening he… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/bernard-leach-talked-about-painting-but-we-never-talked-about/)

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

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> [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/)

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> [ 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/)

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> [ It was a figure painting class, where you had a model, and \[Robert von Neumann \] would wander around and he'd come… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/it-was-a-figure-painting-class-where-you-had-a-model-and-robert-von/)

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

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> [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/)

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> [ 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/)

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> [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/)

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> [ Alix \[MacKenzie\], on the other hand, found that her painting would translate much more readily into decoration, and she could play with… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/alix-mackenzie-on-the-other-hand-found-that-her-painting-would/)

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

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> [In the middle of my second year at school, in 1943, I got drafted into the army, was gone for three years,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/warren-mackenzie/in-the-middle-of-my-second-year-at-school-in-1943-i-got-drafted-into/)

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

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> [ 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/)

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- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-david-hockney-27569.jpg) David Hockney 34 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/painting/david-hockney/)
- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b021/author-robert-rauschenberg-80157.jpg) Robert Rauschenberg 32 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/painting/robert-rauschenberg/)

## 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/)

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