"It seems reasonable to expect that beauty will emerge from a fusion of the individual character and culture of the potter,with the nature of his materials."

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Source : Bernard Leach (1962). “A potter's book”

Bernard Leach

#Character Quotes #Potters Quotes #Fusion Quotes

“I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern in the individual has at its disposal the greatest transforming energies of which life is capable. Find this pattern in your own individual self and life is transformed.”
“...she wasn't reading Deathly Hallows at all. Her book wasn't orange but rose and water and sand, and featured a kid on a broomstick and white unicorn. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. She didn't notice me staring at her. 'Oh, I envy you,' I thought, but was smiling for her. She had just begun.”
“I think people really want to be happy.”
“It was February sixth: eight days until Valentine's Day. I was dateless, as usual, deep in the vice grip of unrequited love. It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve. Now I had to cope with Valentine datelessness, feeling consummate social pressure from every retailer in America who stuck hearts and cupids in their windows by January second to rub it in.”
“We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know.”

Source : 1928 'The Hamlet of A. MacLeish'.
“Joy may be a miser, But Sorrow's purse is free.”
“You can always spot clothes made in a good place.”
“If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.”

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