"To find reality in one's work, to project honesty into it, is to become centered. For better or worse, the pot becomes the projection of the potter, his image.

In it are summed up the integration of his power, his thoughts, his feelings, his action. Pottery form is an emblem of this integration, and we must avoid thinking about the form of pots as if it were something impersonal. Forms grow from the person.

That is why it is impossible to assign any hierarchy of this value to pots or to impose standards aside from the equation person = pots"

- David Rhodes -