Steven Klein Quotes

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.

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

I used to sculpt a bit as a kid.

Clay is not my surface; everyone knows that.

I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.

The artist must continue to look for a new reference. Every day, every performance, every take.

I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

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

The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it.

I always wanted to be really experimental.

When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before.

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.

As an artist, I want to explore as much as I can.

For me, as an artist, I think you have to experiment.

An orchestra can add some class, a historical vibe, but I believe you can get the same emotion from pottery wheels.

I remember borrowing my mum's Instamatic 110 camera as a kid and doing still lifes of tennis balls and benches and thinking they were going to be something really amazing. They ended up being really bad.

When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one!

Failures in art usually lead to something else interesting.

I was interested in cross-pollinating the two. I thought there was something lovely in the little vignette forms. I wanted to explore that.

I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I don't know. My task is simply to follow the words. There are surprises along the way. I just have to get it down. Call it the sculptor's clay.