Toshiko Takaezu Quotes

#1. You are not an artist simply because you paint or sculpt or make pots that cannot be used. An artist is a poet in his or her own medium. And when an artist produces a good piece, that work has mystery, an unsaid quality; it is alive.

Toshiko Takaezu

#2. Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.

Aldous Huxley

#3. To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized?

Ambrose

#4. In my life I see no difference between making pots, cooking and growing vegetables. They are all so related. However, there is a need for me to work in clay. It is so gratifying and I get so much joy from it, and it gives me many answers in my life.

Toshiko Takaezu

#5. and when they didn't know what to do, they took a leap. But in that "leap," there is a lot to unpack.

Jeff Goins

#6. We were all created equally unique.

Ben Tolosa

#7. My parents had a difficult divorce.

Christian Camargo

#8. The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Joseph Roux

#9. I never had the sense of myself as an accomplished artist, and I always had to work three times as hard as anyone else to make mypieces as good as they could be. I am never completely satisfied. There always seems to be something just beyond my reach.

Toshiko Takaezu