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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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