Toshiko Takaezu: At Home, Hunterdon Museum of Art Clifton, NJ, 1998, photo by Tom Grotta

“You are not an artist simply because you paint or sculpt or make pots that cannot be used. An artist is a poet in his or her own medium. And when an artist produces a good piece, that work has mystery, an unsaid quality; it is alive.”

Toshiko Takaezu
(1933 -2011)