Book Quote by 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

“MacKenzie still throws clay on the wheel every day, and with effort his skill has improved: “I think back to some of the pots…

— Angela Duckworth

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

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

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

I think back to some of the pots we made when we first started our pottery, and they were pretty awful pots. We thought…

— Warren MacKenzie

“We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.”

— Lao Tzu

We were working from very exact models and dimensions and weights of clay to make these pots which had been designed some 10 or…

— Warren MacKenzie

In the Leach Pottery we did most of our work on the wheel. [Bernard] Leach did a little work in the studio, which was…

— Warren MacKenzie

In fact, when Bernard [Leach] would be called away to go up to London for something and we'd be living alone for a couple…

— Warren MacKenzie

Other thing about [Field Museum of Natural History] which inspired was that in a group of pots you wouldn't see a single example of…

— Warren MacKenzie

The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.

— Laozi