Ken Ferguson
Talking With The Wheel
"I still believe in learning to throw pots - you get to know the materials - you can express ideas very fast - thrown pieces can be used to hand-build larger pots. If you go through the discipline of learning to throw well, glaze and fire a kiln, you are deeply into the medium. Then you have a product, something people can use and hold in their hands – you can sell it. You can go anywhere from there. It is a broad, wide-open world. You have a foundation on which to build. You don’t know where you’ll be in twenty years. The wheel is a good way to start.”
-an excerpt from Ken Ferguson, “Digging a Deep Well”