Clay Quotes

• 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 I'm sculpting, I work with wood and clay, and though some say that an image is already in the material and the sculptor just has to discover it, I also believe you have an image in your head that you're trying to get to. So you're in a dialogue with the piece, a back-and-forth.

  Julie Taymor

  Believe, Trying, Pieces

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• Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Views, Hands

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

  Ray Bradbury

  Friendship, Inspiring, Potters

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, p.18, Harper Collins

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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 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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• 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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• Time is clay. Go make something.

  Barbara Bach

  Creativity

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• 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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• 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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• Don't see yourself as a body of clay; See yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.

  Rumi

  Mirrors, Divine Beauty, Body

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• This is writing. You cut out chunks of your own memories, rework them, bleed into them, breathe into the raw clay, and hope the creature lives.

  Holly Lisle

  Memories, Writing, Cutting

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

  Matthew McConaughey

  Hands, Process, Movie Making

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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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