Remember, this is back in the '40s, and the idea of a museum being a place where interested people could come in… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I'm striving to make things which are the most exciting things I can make that will fit in people's homes. And in… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
In looking at these pots at the Field Museum, Alix [MacKenzie] and I both came to a conclusion individually but also collectively… — 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
We [me and my wife] went back to St. Paul, worked for a year - again, I guess I would have to… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that.… — Warren MacKenzie 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
Bernard [Leach] knew Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, Johnny Wells. I can think of a number of people that… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
If you press-mold a pot or if you slab-build a pot, the work has got to take much, much, much longer than… — Warren MacKenzie 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 find it really enriching to make pots which people are using and which they come in contact with, not only visually… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
This is something which I think I have been able to communicate to both people I have taught and people that have… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
[Kathleen Blackshear] just said, "Have you thought of looking at this?" and so on and so on and so on. And it was a… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Some years ago I was working on some forms which were vase forms with a fairly narrow base, and it was after [Hans] Coper… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I found out later on that was not true, that life drawing tells you a great deal about rhythm, about the structure of a… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Remember, this is back in the '40s, and the idea of a museum being a place where interested people could come in direct contact… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
At the end of that two weeks Bernard [Leach] asked us if we would like to sit with him tending the kiln, the big… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
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… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
[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.… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
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… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
It was a wonderful opportunity. And so for two and a half years we lived with [Bernard] Leach. — Warren MacKenzie 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 that it… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I went to the Chicago Art Institute, which was the best painting school in the area at that time. And I took painting classes… — Warren MacKenzie 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 Japan, who… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
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