Glass Blowing Quotes

It's hard to shape glass. It took me years of practice, and as a result, I've never gotten bored with it. It's difficult. Every time I come into the studio, I've got some sort of new challenge. And something that I would like to learn how to do better, and the material never disappoints me.

Glass really rewards risk. A lot of times with glass, you're just waiting for the piece to cool down or for some temperature to adjust, and there's split seconds where you've got a fraction of a second where you get to make a move a particular way, and you don't get to repeat it if you do it wrong.

I went from fashion to glass in 1995, and I'm very interested in architecture.

I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.

Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.

My father worked in a scientific lab where he designed and built glass instruments. He was regarded as brilliant at his job and once constructed a human brain in glass just to show off his skills.

Do glassmakers not have the ability to knead their own agates, marbles and rock crystals?

Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.

We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.

I have been interested in neon for a long time. The first neon I made was in 2006, using the word 'America.'