Bernard Leach Quotes

United Kingdom, Ceramist
January 5, 1887 – May, 6, 1979.

Bernard Howell Leach CH CBE (5 January 1887 – 6 May 1979), was a British studio potter and art teacher. He is regarded as the "Father of British studio pottery".

It seems reasonable to expect that beauty will emerge from a fusion of the individual character and culture of the potter,with the nature of his materials.

Bernard Leach
- Character
- Nature
- Beauty
And now indeed this substance with its precious humility becomes, through its indestructibility, the most faithful bearer of man's message. As far back as one goes in time, the works of humanity from prehistoric times have reached us not through stone which crumbles and wears away, or through metal which oxidizes and becomes like powder, but through slabs of pottery, the writing on which is as clear today as it was under the stiletto of the scribe who traced it.

Bernard Leach
- Humility
- Message
- Stone

Perfection can be a fetish.

Bernard Leach
- Perfection
- Fetish