Blame Quote by Margaret Deland

“...failure with clay was more complete and more spectacular than with other forms of art. You are subject to the elements... Any one of…

— A.S. Byatt

The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay.

— Ivan Panin

Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.

— Lupita Nyong'o

But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.

— William Shakespeare

What well-advised ear regards What earth can say? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay.

— Francis Quarles

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it;…

— Thomas Browne

But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service…

— Emily Bronte

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it…

— Jacques Barzun

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

— Elizabeth I

As solid rock remains unmoved by the wind, so the wise remain unmoved by blame and praise.

— Gautama Buddha

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.

— Anne Bronte

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

— William Shakespeare