Toshiko Takaezu famous quotes

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

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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

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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

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An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.

Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.

We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.

We have the ability to provide quality education to every child on earth right now.

All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

When you read the Bible, read for quality not quantity.

Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.

Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.