Clay Quotes - Page 2

• I like doing clay work. It's different from drawing on a page because you have something to mold into different shapes. It's quite visual, it's a thing you can hold and feel, and that makes it different from drawing.

  Bonnie Wright

  Drawing, Mold, Different

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• When you're dealing with clay animation, people forget that every single set is built to scale and by hand.

  Jeffrey Katzenberg

  Hands, People, Forget

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.

  Eva Zeisel

  Hands, Bird, Hard

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

  Ivan Panin

  Art, Fate, Gold

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• Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood,  plaster or clay.

  Eva Zeisel

  Hands, Woods, Creation

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• Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a dwelling, and on the empty space within, its use depends. Thus, while the existence of things may be good, it is the non-existence in them that makes them serviceable.

  Laozi

  Cutting, Dwelling, Space

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• O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.

  Francois Fenelon

  Writing, Soul, Suffering

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.98, Lulu.com

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• Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Art, Learning

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.

  Laozi

  Space, Care, Emptiness

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• We are like clay containers filled with a beautiful treasure. So often it has been the love of Jesus expressed through the life of someone I know that has made a difference in my life.

  Roy Lessin

  Beautiful, Jesus, Differences

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• The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself.

  E.S. Russell

  Musician, Potters, Harps

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• I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Fate, Destiny, Literature

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• Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Soul, Gold, Sun

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• When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Treasure, Jars, Remember

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.53, B&H Publishing Group

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• In my life I see no difference between making pots, cooking and growing vegetables. They are all so related. However, there is a need for me to work in clay. It is so gratifying and I get so much joy from it, and it gives me many answers in my life.

  Toshiko Takaezu

  Vegetables, Differences, Giving

  Toshiko Takaezu, Felice Fischer, Darrel Sewell (2004). “The poetry of clay: the art of Toshiko Takaezu”, ACC Distribution

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• We put thirty spokes to make a wheel: But it is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges. We make a vessel from a lump of clay; But it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful. We make doors and windows for a room; But it is the empty spaces that make the room livable. Thus, while existence has advantages, It is the emptiness that makes it useful.

  Laozi

  Doors, Space, Use

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

  William Shakespeare

  Dust, Dignity

  William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), Gerard Vandergucht, Hubert François Gravelot (1762). “The Works of Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes : Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected, with Notes, Explanatory, and Critical”, p.268

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• Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.

  Walt Disney

  Pieces, Stuck, Disneyland

  "The Quotable Walt Disney". Book by Disney Book Group, 2001.

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• Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

  John Milton

  Men, Darkness, Makers

  John Milton (1838). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.357

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• Bring me an axe and spade,
  Bring me a winding-sheet;
  When I my grave have made
  Let winds and tempests beat:
  Then down I'll lie as cold as clay.
  True love doth pass away!

  William Blake

  Love, Lying, Wind

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.46, Pearson Education

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• This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Baby, Dust, Bending

  James Weldon Johnson (2000). “Complete Poems”, p.17, Penguin

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• People cannot be molded like clay.

  Louisa May Alcott

  People

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Jo's Boys: In Easy-to-Read Type”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

  Francis Bacon

  Persistence, Fire, Grows

  Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath (2011). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.226, Cambridge University Press

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• Ultimately we've only got humanity to work with.  It's only clay we've got.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Humanity

  Source: www.tolkienlibrary.com

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• As ye of clay were cast by kind,
  So shall ye waste to dust.

  Thomas Vaux, 2nd Baron Vaux of Harrowden

  Dust, Waste, Kind

  Thomas Vaux, “The Aged Lover Renounceth Love”

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