Clay Quotes

• Time is clay; make something.

  Barbara Sher

  Barbara Sher (2013). “It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now: HOW TO CREATE YOUR SECOND LIFE AT ANY AGE”, p.115, Dell

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• We are all jars of clay, fragile and poor, yet we carry within us an immense treasure.

  Pope Francis

  Treasure, Jars, Poor

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• You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Lying, Hands, Mold

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• Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beauty, Beautiful, Lovely

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.873, Delphi Classics

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• A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.

  Og Mandino

  Men, Fields, Castles

  "The Greatest Salesman in the World". Book by Og Mandino. Chapter 15: "The Scroll Marked VIII," p. 88, 1986.

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• Clay is used to make vases, but it is the emptiness they contain that makes them useful.

  Laozi

  Vases, Emptiness, Used

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• A body of clay, a mind full of play, a moment's life - that's me.

  Harivanshrai Bachchan

  Life, Play, Mind

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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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• The realist sees reality as concrete. The optimist sees reality as clay.

  Robert Breault

  Reality, Optimism, Realist

  "Attitude Is Everything" by Rita Schiano, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• There are no happier people on this planet than those who decide that they want something, define what they want, get hold of the feeling of it even before its manifestation and then joyously watch the unfolding as, piece by piece by piece, it begins to unfold. That's the feeling of your hands in the clay.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• The idea that we can take this lump of clay and mold it into a form of our choosing is absolutely ludicrous.

  Ross W. Greene

  Ideas, Mold, Form

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Learn to humble yourself, you are but earth and clay.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Inspirational, Humble, Earth

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• There is relationship between sight and touch, something about eyes being able to see through the fingers touching the clay, about fingers being able to feel what the eyes are seeing without the fingers actually touching it.

  Jose Saramago

  Eye, Sight, Touching

  "The Cave". Book by Jose Saramago, 2002.

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• All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Shapes, May

  "Twenty-four Conversations with Borges, Including a Selection of Poems: Interviews by Roberto Alifano, 1981-1983". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1984.

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• I dream in fire but work in clay.

  Arthur Machen

  Dream, Fire

  Arthur Machen (2018). “The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories”, p.369, Oxford University Press

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• Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.

  Laozi

  Space, Taoism, Mold

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• I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Hands, Process, Movie Making

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

  Janet Fitch

  Hands, Potters, Feels

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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

  Plutarch

  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Plutarch (1906). “Essays & Miscellanies...”

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• Shape clay into a vessel;
  It is the space within that makes it useful.
  Cut doors and windows for a room;
  It is the holes which make it useful.
  Therefore benefit comes from what is there;
  Usefulness from what is not there.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Cutting, Space

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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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• Time is clay. Go make something.

  Barbara Bach

  Creativity

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• 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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• 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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