Monday, September 16, 2013

Ceramics - Blog 4 - Quote

Post an interesting quote about clay.  Note the source.

12 comments:

  1. No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
    -Plutarch

    http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/p/plutarch161648.html#thtltCJYSw0ocZFO.99

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  2. "The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.”
    -William Shakespeare
    http://thinkexist.com/quotation/the_purest_treasure_mortal_times_afford-is/146728.html

    Brenley Martinez

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  3. “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 painstaking”
    ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    http://thinkexist.com/quotation/each_has_his_own_happiness_in_his_hands-as_the/198707.html

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  4. The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

    Martin Luther
    http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/martinluth161880.html

    Sam Jones

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  6. My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.
    Margaret Walker

    Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/clay.html#IrlJtm0m6gM2dWzS.99

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  7. “Every night I cuddle with a blob of unbaked clay I fashioned in the shape of a woman. But that’s what being in love is all about. 
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    ― Jarod Kintz

    http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/clay

    -Emily Garnett

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  8. “Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, / O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.”
    -Bible


    http://thinkexist.com/quotation/then_the_word_of_the_lord_came_to_me-saying--o/279355.html
    McKenzie Peterson


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

    -Antoine Rivarol

    http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/antoineriv147763.html#ClekS7E8g2K1qul1.99

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  10. “You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.”
    http://thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/clay/
    http://thinkexist.com/quotes/john_updike/

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  11. "We throw clay to shape a pot, but the utility of the clay pot is a function of the nothingness inside it."

    - Tao Te Ching: Chapter 11
    trans. by R. T. Ames & D. L. Hall (2003)
    http://ceramicartsdaily.org/community/topic/1798-quotes-for-the-ceramics-studio-andor-class/

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  12. "The reproduction of Mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay"

    -Martin Luther

    http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/clay.html

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