Apprentice Quote by Warren MacKenzie

Living with [Bernard] Leach, who thought about pottery 24 hours a day, was a fantastic experience, and we really began to get inside his…

— Warren MacKenzie

[ Bernard] Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher and had…

— Warren MacKenzie

If [Bernard Leach] didn't like the drawing, he'd X it out and do another one and change the form a little bit. And when…

— Warren MacKenzie

[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…

— Warren MacKenzie

Bernard [Leach] was, as I said , trained as a painter and an etcher.

— Warren MacKenzie

When we worked at the pottery, we did learn to make pots, that is, the physical act of making the pot. We learned to…

— Warren MacKenzie

“ 'Paint only what you see,' his hero Millet had admonished. 'Imagination is a burden to a painter,' Auguste Renoir had told him. 'Painters…

— Christopher Moore

The great French Impressionist painter Renoir, right at the end of his very long life, said to a friend, "I am just now learning…

— Roger Housden

Bernard [Leach] was making pots which were duplicates of his drawing, and that was a difference of approach, which I think is quite critical…

— Warren MacKenzie

I'm a formalist. I'm interested in the history of painting.

— Glenn Ligon

Manet wanted one day to paint my wife and children. Renoir was there. He took a canvas and began painting them, too. After a…

— Claude Monet

“In Pliny I read about the invention of clay modeling. A Sicyonian potter came to Corinth. There his daughter fell in love with a…

— Annie Dillard