Quotes by Clay The first draft of a story is the writer's clay. Bruce Coville clay stories firsts In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction. Bruce Lee clay building creation It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay. Bruce Lee clay pieces broken He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay. Carlos Ruiz Zafon clay our-words knowing There was never much question as to what I was going to do in life, because working with clay was what I could do . . . there are things I watch my hand do that are almost thoughtless. I can remember the moment of learning them. It is knowledge you have in the hand. Charles Simonds clay hands art My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman. Chloe Grace Moretz clay mom looks Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles. Chris Evert clay tennis achievement Food is like clay; you can sculpt with it. Also it has an odor, and you can eat it. I don't eat a lot of cake, but I do make cakes! And unlike the Campbell's Soup Cans, my food is a humanized form and scale. Claes Oldenburg odor clay cake You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender. Corrie Ten Boom clay lying hands Some make you sing and some make you scream. One makes you wish that you'd never been seen. But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier mache, making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay. If you want it, boys, get it here, thing. David Bowie clay wish boys Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use. David Byrne clay emotional creative I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain. David Levithan clay sadness beautiful The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.' David Viscott clay lists stones Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined. E. L. Doctorow clay territory purpose Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days;--when we are resting they are good; under fire, they are dead. Fields of craters within and without. Erich Maria Remarque clay fields fire The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself. E.S. Russell potters clay musician I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak. Erykah Badu clay art thinking Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay. Eric Hoffer clay power men Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay. Eva Zeisel clay woods hands When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds. Eva Zeisel clay bird hands «123456789»
