If you are looking for some inspirational pottery quotes and sayings, you’re in the right place! 🙂
Below, you will find some of the most insightful and creative quotes about pottery and ceramics that are sure to spark creativity.
So whether you are just new to pottery or already know how to use a pottery wheel, these quotes are sure to help in reflection or motivation. Let’s begin! 🏺
67+ Insightful Pottery Quotes, Sayings & Proverbs
1. “Yield to God the way clay does to the Potter’s hands.” – Proverbs
2. “A successful pot is one that does the job it was made to do.” – Unknown
3. “Being creative is not a hobby. It’s a way of life.” – Proverbs
4. “Hard times teach us valuable lessons.” – Unknown
5. “A day without pottery is a day wasted.” – Proverbs
6. “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas
7. “I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter’s hand.” – Janet Fitch
8. “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” – Francis Bacon
9. “Pottery and sculpture are a way of life for me, not simply my job.” – Linda Coward
10. “Happiness is making your first pot in a pottery wheel.” – Proverbs
11. “Discipline gives you the freedom to be creative.” – Denise Morrison
12. “I embrace irregularities as a part of the character of my work.” – Joe Pintz
13. “Well-crafted things inspire me, whether it’s pottery or art or music.” – Rodney Yee
14. “It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” – Frederick Douglas
15. “Those who build are greater than those who tear down.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
16. “Life is just like potter’s clay it gets shaped by our own hands.” – Tanuja Srivastava
17. “Every pot that is crafted required hands to be spoilt.” – Unknown
18. “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.” – Proverbs
19. “In order to be creative, you have to be allowed to fail.” – Julie Walters
20. “Be thankful for the hard times, for they have made you.” – Proverbs
21. “The clay pot was beautifully carved, but it couldn’t resist the furnace!” – Unknown
22. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
23. “Pottery is the eighty percent technique and only twenty percent of art.” – Ah Leon
24. “Doing something creative with your hands is healing energy.” – Unknown
25. “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” – Pablo Picasso
26. “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” – Pablo Picasso
27. “Just like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand.” – Jeremiah 18:6
28. “We are being shaped into form, but no pot is completely round.” – Gentleman of the Light
29. “We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.” – Tao Saying
30. “Handmade creations of beautiful utensils & pots with the help of clay called potter.” – Prerna Mishra
31. “I do pottery. I love it. It’s very relaxing; it takes me to another planet.” – Eva Herzigova
32. “I’m always interested in the next piece I’m going to make perhaps more than the last one I made.” – Belly Woodman
33. “Expectations were like fine pottery. The harder you held them, the more likely they were to crack.” – Brandon Sanderson
34. “The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.” – Irving Berlin
35. “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” – Stella Adler
36. “We need to stop trying to get God to fit into our mold and starting fitting into His.” – Kenny Gatlin Ministries
37. “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
38. “Only if the clay gets in the hands of the potter, it will be molded and shaped into something valuable.” – Unknown
39. “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway
40. “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” – John Maynard Keynes
41. “Creativity is a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.” – Arthur Koestler
42. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston S. Churchill
43. “Pottery is eighty percent technique and only twenty percent art, but the most important is the latter.” – Ah Leon
42. “To practice art, no matter how well or badly is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” – Kurt Vonnegut
43. “The secret to creative freedom is letting go of our habitual certainties.” – Deepak Chopra
44. “A true artist is not one who is inspired but one who inspires others.” – Salvador Dali
45. “May your hands be full of clay and your hearts be full of imagination.” – Proverbs
46. “And yet, o Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, and You are the Potter. We are all formed by Your hand.” – Isaiah 64:8
47. “Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.” – Proverbs
48. “Though we may feel we are like a broken vessel, we must remember that vessel is in the hands of the divine potter.” – Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
49. “It feeds my soul, I can’t imagine a life without making things, without having a project to work on.” – Rebecca Cottrell
50. “Just as a clay surrenders itself to the potter, surrender yourself completely to the creator. He will mold you.” – Danton Jesuraja
51. “For a potter to be able to make a pot that has life and vitality there has to be some brainpower connected, some intellectual curiosity.” – Dwight Holland
52. “Life is a raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It’s in our hands.” – Cathy Better
53. “Producing pottery is a kind of play; a regenerative act ripe with reverence, revealing the human hands enduring connection to creativity.” – Ross Spangler
54. “Water from cooled bottles of the refrigerator cannot satisfy the thirsty wildfire in the body like the dusty pond of clay pot does.” – Sparsh Sharma
55. “Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of a struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.” – Magdalena Abakanowicz
56. “True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.” – Antoines De Saint-Exupery
57. “With a bowed head and hands in appeal, the molded clay gets crafted on the wheel. Indeed, isn’t realization bigger than mistakes?” – Ratika Agarwal
58. “If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.” – Denzel Washington
59. “Like the clay in the potter’s wheel make me whirl with your thoughts… As I will surrender my self to you, touch me with that passion feeling my every curve… Touch me with that warmth and mold me into your masterpiece…” – Swagatika
60. “The good pottery needs the perfect clay made out of adding sufficient water to bring out into a perfect consistency tears play that role in molding you as what you want to become!” – Madhu Sudha Manickam
61. “My hands are very important to me. Craft is the honed skill & artistry with which I use my hands to turn inspiration to creation – to make something where there was nothing.” – Proverbs
62. “You may not be a Picasso or Mozart but you don’t have to be. Just create to create. Create to remind yourself you’re still alive. Make stuff to inspire others to make something too. Create to learn a bit more about yourself.” – Frederick Terral
63. “I always strived to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass, or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression of beauty, that has been my creed.” – Louis Comfort Tiffany
64. “She is a beautiful piece of broken pottery, put back together by her own hands, and a critical world judges her cracks while missing the beauty of how she made herself whole again.” – J. M. Storm
65. “There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator made known through Jesus.” – Blaise Pascal
66. “I am committed to the intangible and intuitive aspects of art. Through the things I make, I give people some insight into how I see. I believe that all objects contain energy that embodies a feeling.” – Joanna Powell
Conclusion Of The Best Pottery Quotes
That rounds up my list of the top pottery quotes that help new and experienced potters gain inspiration and motivation for their craft. If I have missed out on any quotes or sayings, please drop them down below as I will be updating this list in the future! Also if you are just learning pottery or ceramics, here is a great beginner guide to help you get started!