Ceramics Quotes

• I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.

  Julie Andrews

  Lovely, Would Be, Potters

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• The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both extremely fragile and durable. Like 'Sumi' ink painting, it does not lend itself to erasures and indecision.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Lying, Difficult And Easy, Ink

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• I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that

  Christina Milian

  Art, Fun, Crafts

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• The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

  Mark Twain

  Pieces, Pottery, Able

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.71, 谷月社

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• When people say ceramics is therapeutic and seductive, I think it's really about the wheel. Nothing I've done has that feeling; I feel like I'm fighting with the material the whole time. It doesn't want to be vague. It doesn't want to be asymmetrical. It doesn't want to have different clays combined. It doesn't want to do any of the things I make it do.

  Francesca DiMattio

  Fighting, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can see hope inside it." Rachel ran her fingers over the ceramic designs. "So fragile.

  Rick Riordan

  Design, Fingers, Ran

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.217, Penguin UK

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• I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.

  Mark Twain

  Pottery, Brics

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 619-20, Tramp Abroad, Chapter XX, 1922.

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• The other day I started to take a course in psycho-ceramics. What is psycho-ceramics? It's the study of crackpots.

  Joey Bishop

  Psycho, Study, Courses

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• I do a lot of ceramics.

  Jeff Bridges

  "Jeff Bridges Interview - SURF'S UP" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 4, 2007.

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• All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats.

  Steven Wright

  Cat, People, Insanity

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• All the perks, all the benefits and advantages you may get for the rank or position you hold, they aren’t meant for you. They are meant for the role you fill. And when you leave your role, which eventually you will, they will give the ceramic cup to the person who replaces you. Because you only ever deserved a Styrofoam cup.

  Simon Sinek

  Giving, Roles, Styrofoam

  Simon Sinek (2014). “Leaders Eat Last Deluxe: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't”, p.68, Penguin

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• For me it's really important that the work here displays an aesthetic of decay along with the sunken boat with the broken ceramic pieces. They form a unity in showing the power of destruction, the beauty of destruction, whether it's from nature - because the boat has sunk - or through other forces. It's really the beauty of decay and death that holds a power here.

  Cai Guo-Qiang

  Broken, Unity, Important

  "Reflection". Art21 Interview, art21.org. 2005.

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• I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Chinese, Sculpture, Impressionists

  Bruce Chatwin (1997). “Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989”, p.14, Penguin

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• When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

  Martha Stewart

  Virginia, Class, Months

  "Party At Martha's: Stewart's Tips For 'Entertaining'". "Morning Edition" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 5, 2011.

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• [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 an old scrap of paper out of his pocket and a little stub of a pencil, and he'd begin to make small drawings, about an inch and a half, two inches tall, of pots that he wanted to make. And they were beautiful drawings. I really wish I'd stolen some of those scraps of paper, because those drawings were exquisite explorations of his ideas of form and volume in a ceramic piece.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Beautiful, Ideas, Two

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I was always doing films, but the ceramics didn't come until later. I did take ceramics in university, which gave me an appetite for the medium, but I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do with it yet.

  Marcel Dzama

  Film, Figures, Appetite

  "Marcel Dzama’s Grandmaster Games". Interview with Rachel Egan, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 8, 2014.

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• I took a number of graphic courses, lithography and etching and wood engraving [at Art Institute]. And particularly as I got more and more into ceramics, I thought, life drawing doesn't have anything to do with ceramics.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Art, Drawing, Numbers

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.

  Nate Berkus

  Kids, Indiana, Fleas

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• There was this one lady in Colorado who made us something ceramic, where it could have been either a ring holder or a bowl cleaner. She was just like, "Here you go." And we were both like, "Oh my god! Thank yoooou!"

  Ilana Glazer

  Colorado, Made, Rings

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• We both [with Alixandra Kolesky MacKenzie] got into ceramics, you might say, by the back door. Looking back on it, I think this was a very good thing.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Thinking, Doors, Might

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?

  Ken Kesey

  Rorschach, Psycho, Pot

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.122, Hamilton Books

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• Ridiculous that some people feel superior to the gay minority. They're the only couples you'll ever find poking around for ceramics and candle holders in the winery gift shop and both parties really want to be there.

  Richard Jeni

  Couple, Party, Gay

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• In the middle of my second year at school, in 1943, I got drafted into the army, was gone for three years, and when I came back, I tried to get into the painting classes which I wanted, but because of all the returned GIs [the GI Bill], everyone was in school and the classes were all full. So I looked at the catalogue and found that there was a ceramic class offered and that there was space in that. I registered for a ceramic class and some drawing classes.

  Warren MacKenzie

  School, Army, Years

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Then there were the shabti, magical figurines that were supposed to come to life when summoned. A few months ago, I’d fallen for a girl named Zia Rashid, who’d turned out to be a shabti. Falling in love for the first time had been hard enough. But when the girl you like turns out to be ceramic and cracks to pieces before your eyes—well, it gives “breaking your heart” a new meaning.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Falling In Love, Heart

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.419, Penguin UK

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• I came up to New York at 20 with a suitcase and a ceramic tiger. That was my one piece of furniture and I wanted to save it.

  Rex Smith

  New York, Pieces, Suitcases

  "New again: Rex Smith". Interview with Andy Warhol and Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2015.

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