Frances Tiafoe Quotes

Clay is not my surface; everyone knows that.

I do a lot of ceramics.

I do pottery.

I do pottery. I love it. It's very relaxing; it takes me to another planet.

I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.

Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.

I used to sculpt a bit as a kid.

My love for pottery started completely by chance when a good friend of mine recommended I take a class. When I sat down at a pottery wheel, it was like love at first sight. It was so deeply meditative, and I felt connected right away.

Clay is a very interesting and fundamental material: it's earth, it's water, and - with fire - it takes on form and life.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills.

When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.

I was digging in the backyard to get my own clay and making pottery. And then I started taking pictures and built my own darkroom. I would go out at six in the morning and just take pictures.

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

I love arts and crafts.

I am someone who takes pleasure in exploring the full scale of the medium photography. I am a photographer.

To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.

If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything.

I think storytelling is storytelling. It doesn't matter what format it's shot on.

If you took a cracked pot and you cracked that cracked pot, you'd be approaching the level of cracked pottery we are talking about here.

Art is communication.

Mold clay into a bowl. The empty space makes it useful.

[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.