Christien Meindertsma Quotes

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.

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

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

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.

I love a good set of basic white dishes.

I grew up in a small town in the Netherlands which, for years, had been a center of textile production.

I hope I succeed in demonstrating that you may equally find compelling and significant narratives - stories that alter or add to our understanding of history - in unprepossessing places: a Victorian sewer system; a Cold War bunker; derelict hospitals.

'Night Mail' belongs quintessentially to the age of steam. It is impossible to simply go with the idea of remaking it.

I've been a fan and collector of Lucie Rie for years.

Both of my folks were into art. My dad was an art collector, my mom had a little kiln in our basement, and we would make pottery. I think from about age five on, they sent me to art classes, and I was a huge colorer.

I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.

I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.

I was always doing films, but the ceramics didn't come until later. I did take ceramics in university, which gave me an appetite for the medium, but I couldn't figure out what I wanted to do with it yet.

Earthenware is like people, it needs to be well treated.

... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.

The importance of the End of time is as ... a psychological event ... When you have seen the radiance of eternity through all the forms of time ... and it is the function of art to make that visible to you ... then you have really have ended life in the world as it is lived by those who only think only in the historical, concretizing terms. This is the function of mythology.

The English Puritans pulled down church and state to rebuild Zion on the ruins, and all the while it was not Zion, but America, they were building.

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.

I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries.

Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.