Quotes About Pottery

I didn't bother with television myself because it consisted largely of windmills, puppets and pottery wheels, interspersed with elderly men smoking pipes while they discussed Harold Macmillan in Old Etonian accents.

An orchestra can add some class, a historical vibe, but I believe you can get the same emotion from pottery wheels.

My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'

Harappan pottery is distinctive, with designs in black, of plants, birds and abstract forms, frequently painted on a red surface. Pottery is a clue to locating Harappan sites,

This is the porcelain clay of humankind.

bacon is a little like chewing shards of pottery. And the eggs deserved a better fate.

There's something really raw and exciting about grabbing a lump of clay and creating something unique out of it.

I love a good cup of tea and you can never have too many mugs. Even better if it's homemade pottery, inspired by 'The Great Pottery Throw Down.'

Champion Ven knelt in the ruins of the village. Sifting through the rubble, he lifted out a broken doll, its pink dress streaked with dirt and its pottery face cracked. There was always a broken doll. Why did there always have to be a damn doll?

We shape clay into a pot, but it is emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. -TAO TE CHING

If you like metaphysics, throw pots.

I'd broken up with someone I'd met at my pottery studio. It had been quite a major love affair. He was older and single, and I'd gotten caught up in it to the point that I'd even thought about marrying him. In the end we'd gone our separate ways, but I was still hung up on him.

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

When I was reading books for 'Seesaw Girl,' I came across several references to the fact that in the 11th and 12th centuries, Korean pottery was considered the finest in the world. I liked that - the idea of a little tiny country being the best at something.

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

I do pottery. I love it. It's very relaxing; it takes me to another planet.

He tilted the box toward a chipped Pottery Barn blue bowl, and the little blue clumps, like cerulean rat turds, tumbled out, hitting the porcelain with a surprisingly metallic thud. It sounded like pennies dumped into an aluminum trash can.

The woman's entire music collection is formed from Pottery Barn compilations.

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family, Carandinus, painted on it.

I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.

Being able to do a role where you learn a new skill is just such a dream. I recently played a potter and got to learn pottery.

Life appears to have been pretty good for the Skara Brae residents. They had jewelry and pottery. They grew wheat and barley, and enjoyed bounteous harvests of shellfish and fish, including a codfish that weighed seventy-five pounds. They kept cattle, sheep, pigs, and dogs. The one thing they lacked was wood.

I put the mud on the wheel, I spun it, and I could work clay. It was a miracle. I could do clay without any thought, without any doubt. I knew nothing about clay and yet the skill came out of my hands. Clay was all I had—all that I was. Clay was all that was left of me. I was an animal that made pots.