We were working from very exact models and dimensions and weights of clay to make these pots which had been designed some 10 or 12 years previous to our arriving [at Bernard's Leach studio]. And we, being, I guess you would say young, arrogant Americans, thought that we ought to be able to somehow express ourselves a little bit more in the daily work of the pottery.
In working on a drawing or a painting, one can rework and rework and rework and change ideas until you get it the way you think is right at that time… - Warren Mackenzie
In working on a drawing or a painting, one can rework and rework and rework and change ideas until you get it the way you think is right at that time…
- Warren Mackenzie
In looking at these pots at the Field Museum, Alix [MacKenzie] and I both came to a conclusion individually but also collectively that the pots that … - Warren Mackenzie
In looking at these pots at the Field Museum, Alix [MacKenzie] and I both came to a conclusion individually but also collectively that the pots that …
I make a lot of pots in a year's time and some of them are good and some of them are mediocre and some of them are bad. If they're really bad and I'd… - Warren Mackenzie
I make a lot of pots in a year's time and some of them are good and some of them are mediocre and some of them are bad. If they're really bad and I'd…
In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting and no figure drawing, still-life dr… - Warren Mackenzie
In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting and no figure drawing, still-life dr…
If you press-mold a pot or if you slab-build a pot, the work has got to take much, much, much longer than if you work on the wheel. And I to this day… - Warren Mackenzie
If you press-mold a pot or if you slab-build a pot, the work has got to take much, much, much longer than if you work on the wheel. And I to this day…
We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that. We were going to be the… - Warren Mackenzie
We'll be potters, we'll be painters, we'll be textile designers, we'll be jewelers, we'll be a little this, a little of that. We were going to be the…
I find it really enriching to make pots which people are using and which they come in contact with, not only visually in their homes but tactilely - … - Warren Mackenzie
I find it really enriching to make pots which people are using and which they come in contact with, not only visually in their homes but tactilely - …
Here is this ability to explore ideas, but with minute changes, and then look at the results. Often you get so excited about what you're doing that y… - Warren Mackenzie
Here is this ability to explore ideas, but with minute changes, and then look at the results. Often you get so excited about what you're doing that y…
Things happen very quickly and they have to happen quickly in order to have vitality, which I think is essentially part of a good pot. But in additio… - Warren Mackenzie
Things happen very quickly and they have to happen quickly in order to have vitality, which I think is essentially part of a good pot. But in additio…
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