quotes about Pottery
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My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.
-- Candace Bushnell -
For the longest time I was afraid I'd have to keep on working at the factories. There was a steel mill and a pottery; if you didn't go to college, you went to work in those places.
-- Daniel JohnstonSource : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2011.
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I do pottery. I love it. It's very relaxing; it takes me to another planet.
-- Eva Herzigova -
If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.
-- Eva Zeisel -
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If you took a cracked pot and you cracked that cracked pot, you'd be approaching the level of cracked pottery we are talking about here.
-- Rachel MaddowSource : "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. July 8, 2011.
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I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.
-- Walton Goggins -
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.
-- 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 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 original that he had modeled in solid clay, and during our work there, sometimes I would be pressing these forms as a means of production.
-- Warren MacKenzie -
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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.
-- Warren MacKenzie -
We got a great benefit from our contact with those people [Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, Richard Batram] and met people that we wouldn't have probably met if we had simply worked at the pottery.
-- Warren MacKenzie -
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 had come from Japan back to England with [Bernard] Leach when Leach was establishing his pottery.
-- Warren MacKenzie -
Well-crafted things inspire me, whether it's pottery or art or music.
-- Rodney YeeSource : "A Conversation with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 7, 2012.
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