New Zealand Pottery Quotes

#1. We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.

Carl Andre

#2. The pa system has broken down. Society has broken down.

Theresa Sjoquist

#3. I know where I am going now with art. I have found myself. Yvonne Rust 1994, aged 72.

Theresa Sjoquist

#4. I have loved this life. I smile because I have tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth. And every time I breathe they float, every time I laugh, they fly kites.

Shane Koyczan

#5. Later in life the force of abstinence was to really be understood and my parent's problems became very clear. When will man appreciate his pleasures and respect them enough to indulge in moderation?

Theresa Sjoquist

#6. Around five-eight, slim, good shoulders, narrow hips, legs and trunk in proportion, short dark hair, side parting, dark eyes, probably blue, shadows under the eyes, fair skin, average nose, wide mouth, lower lip fuller than upper.

Val McDermid

#7. Everything for me started with my love of the sport. In society we're losing the fun with kids and pushing success on them too hard. Success comes from fun.

Shawn Johnson

#8. He isn't interested in simple. He wants what he wants. No matter how much trouble she is and no matter whether he even understands it himself.

Deanna Raybourn

#9. Theatre is fake ... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.

Marina Abramovic

#10. Knowledge is addictive. Keep it up.

Theresa Sjoquist

#11. I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane. I spend a lot of time in the darkroom. It's a very solitary, quiet life when I'm not working.

Alaina Huffman

#12. I'd already figured out that not understanding my failings was another one of my failings.

Melissa Bank

#13. In 1946 there was no money in art, no dealer galleries, no craft shops. After the war we started to teach art in every school for the first time. Our generation played a crucial role. We were the stepping stones towards today's galleries.

Theresa Sjoquist

#14. I decided I had to find out if it was my scene or not. So I stepped in at the deep end. It leads you to survive or drown. Very often you survive.

Theresa Sjoquist

#15. I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire.

Dita Von Teese

#16. There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#17. If you want to teach real religion to the kids, throw away the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran and all the scriptures, and teach them the religion of love.

Abhijit Naskar

#18. In my small way I became an integral part of the pottery movement, and added fuel to the fire which consumed New Zealand and and swept pottery to the forefront of the of the fifties and sixties.

Theresa Sjoquist

#19. I am in love,
I became an angel;
flowers bloom with my touch,
birds comes to me and sing love song,
air touches my cheeks to feel my love,
leaves are dancing around me with the melody of love.
Oh love, I am in love, I am the love.

Debasish Mridha