And as far as I know about Alix's [MacKenzie] work, I don't believe she ever did any sculptural work at all. It… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist and people who appreciate truly beautiful… — Clarice Cliff Copy Share Image
When I was 16 I got a school holiday job at Minton's pottery factory in Staffordshire, packing plates. For a month's work,… — Anthea Turner Copy Share Image
I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
Being able to do a role where you learn a new skill is just such a dream. I recently played a potter… — Phoebe Dynevor Copy Share Image
Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and… — Daniel Johnston Copy Share Image
What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I have no policy for my collection. For example, there's a bunch of meteorite [on the windowsill in my studio]. I touch… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
My mum was into pottery and embroidery, very artistic, and she knew some people from the college, which I think was how… — Jamie Hewlett 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 don't like the idea of things being off-limits to kids - like a fancy sitting room where they can't touch anything.… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
We asked a lot of questions and we watched everyone who was working in the studio. And we had an opportunity to… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
The great cry that rises from our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When I do entertain, in the summer, which is rare, I receive my guests on the front porch, set up wicker trays… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
We were working from very exact models and dimensions and weights of clay to make these pots which had been designed some… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I love collecting market stuff in Mexico. I have an etagere built onto the wall of my living room, which has cubicles… — Rick Bayless Copy Share Image
My love for pottery started completely by chance when a good friend of mine recommended I take a class. When I sat… — Jeremiah Brent Copy Share Image
Bernard [Leach] had acquired many [Shoji] Hamada works. Some of them, it was interesting - first of all, Hamada worked in St.… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
The interesting thing was we never talked about pottery. Bernard [Leach] talked about social issues; he talked about the world political situation,… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
When I was reading books for 'Seesaw Girl,' I came across several references to the fact that in the 11th and 12th… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
Pottery was what sandal-wearing, windchime-lovers did. Art is sensitive to areas of visual culture that havent yet been colonised by the art… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the… — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
In the Leach Pottery we did most of our work on the wheel. [Bernard] Leach did a little work in the studio,… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
In searching for further training we turned to England and Bernard Leach. We thought since we had responded to his book so… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Rentals sank, living rose. I could not afford help. I must be owner, agent, landlady and janitor. I loathed landladying... I tried… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Many years ago, when I was once saying sadly to Max it was a pity I couldn't have taken up archaeology when… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Her small bedroom was decorated with cheerfully embroidered samplers, which she had stitched herself, and a shelf containing an intricate shellwork tableau.… — Janet Gleeson Copy Share Image
Living with [Bernard] Leach, who thought about pottery 24 hours a day, was a fantastic experience, and we really began to get… — 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… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
We moved up here [to St.Paul with my wife] and started to teach, we very quickly found out we were not equipped… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
The more I have learned about wine ... the more I have realized that it weaves in with human history from its… — Hugh S. Johnson 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
Zen brings creativity. And remember, if you want to be one with the creator, you will have to learn some ways of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“...failure with clay was more complete and more spectacular than with other forms of art. You are subject to the elements... Any… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
![“And as far as I know about Alix's [MacKenzie] work, I don't believe she ever did any sculptural work at all. It was always pottery.” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bb/warren-mackenzie-4654_believe_and-as-far-as-i-know-about-alix-s-macken_3215982.jpg)
![“I have no policy for my collection. For example, there's a bunch of meteorite [on the windowsill in my studio]. I touch it and I feel the energy from the universe. I have a 1/1,000th of a fragment of stone-age tools and pottery and debris. I can learn many things from my collection. Actually, the…” quote by Hiroshi Sugimoto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/947/hiroshi-sugimoto-14343_age_i-have-no-policy-for-my-collection-for-e_266371.jpg)
![“Friends of Bernard's [Leach] came to visit, and when we went to London, we were given introductions to people like Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, Richard Batram. All these people were, let's say, made available to us by a friendship with Leach. In addition there was a potter's group - what was it called?…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd3/warren-mackenzie-4654_available_friends-of-bernard-s-leach-came-to-visit_2626681.jpg)
![“We were working from very exact models and dimensions and weights of clay to make these pots which had been designed some 10 or 12 years previous to our arriving [at Bernard's Leach studio]. And we, being, I guess you would say young, arrogant Americans, thought that we ought to be able to somehow…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ce/warren-mackenzie-4654_able_we-were-working-from-very-exact-models-a_2464088.jpg)
![“Bernard [Leach] had acquired many [Shoji] Hamada works. Some of them, it was interesting - first of all, Hamada worked in St. Ives for about four years before returning to Japan to start his own pottery. He had exhibitions in London, and if these exhibitions didn't sell out, the galleries were…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c0/warren-mackenzie-4654_exhibitions_bernard-leach-had-acquired-many-shoji-ha_2454863.jpg)
![“The interesting thing was we never talked about pottery. Bernard [Leach] talked about social issues; he talked about the world political situation, he talked about the economy, he talked about all kinds of things.” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/028/warren-mackenzie-4654_all-kinds_the-interesting-thing-was-we-never-talke_3120313.jpg)
![“I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills, and that night, skinny-dipping under the stars. Just being free and joyful. And that's how I [felt] about turning 50.” quote by Marcia Gay Harden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/263/marcia-gay-harden-8656_50th-birthday_i-celebrated-my-50th-birthday-by-throwin_568039.jpg)
![“In the Leach Pottery we did most of our work on the wheel. [Bernard] Leach did a little work in the studio, which was press-molded forms, plastic clay pressed into plaster forms to make small rectangular boxes and some vase forms, which he liked to make. These were molds which had been made to an…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a8/warren-mackenzie-4654_boxes_in-the-leach-pottery-we-did-most-of-our_447338.jpg)
![“Living with [Bernard] Leach, who thought about pottery 24 hours a day, was a fantastic experience, and we really began to get inside his mind and understand what had motivated him to work all his life as a potter.” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b51/warren-mackenzie-4654_fantastic_living-with-bernard-leach-who-thought-ab_1548049.jpg)
![“[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. We could see the most sophisticated things that came out of the Orient - Japan, Korea, and China - some few pieces of European porcelain, majolica…” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fc/warren-mackenzie-4654_ancient_in-the-field-museum-of-natural-history-w_183538.jpg)
![“We moved up here [to St.Paul with my wife] and started to teach, we very quickly found out we were not equipped either to teach or to run our own pottery, and so we decided that we had to have further training.” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/360/warren-mackenzie-4654_decided_we-moved-up-here-to-st-paul-with-my-wife_3235179.jpg)
![“We [me and my wife] went back to St. Paul, worked for a year - again, I guess I would have to admit now, doing a rather shaky job of teaching people - but at the end of that year we returned to England and worked in the [Bernard] Leach Pottery for two and a half years.” quote by Warren MacKenzie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50b/warren-mackenzie-4654_ends_we-me-and-my-wife-went-back-to-st-paul-w_1318886.jpg)
