"I used to think [Shoji] Hamada never drew, until there was a book by Bernard [Leach] published about his work [Hamada: Potter, Tokyo; New York: Harper & Row, 1975] and at the rear of the book were a number of wonderful little sketches, but they were not drawings like Bernard made."

-- Warren MacKenzie

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“These are human beings with real lives and the uncertainty and the fear that any of them face right now could be ended at a stroke if we had all the candidates for prime minister simply say that the right to remain here is not in question and I call again upon Theresa May and on the current prime minster to do that. That would be the humane thing to do and I even at this stage hope that that's a direction they will take.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“I don't think we need a featuring though , because five of us are enough .”
“The moment is never perfect. It's like that right now - in my head I'm being super lucid, but you never are. You're always fumbling.”
“We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be.”
“There's simply too much fuss about myself,”
“Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and preoccupations, but to simplify our lives more and more. The key to finding a happy balance in modern life is simplicity.”

Source : "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying". Book by Sogyal Rinpoche, 1992.
“It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.”
“Play is the work of the child.”

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