‘There is nothing quite like throwing in any other craft.  It combines, in a way which seems to be peculiarly in tune with the spirit of the age, the excitement of creation with the efficiency of a machine.  It can produce, in skillful and sensitive hands, a kind of beauty that can be got by no other process, and at the same time it opens the possibility of making great numbers of articles, and sufficiently uniform to meet the needs of domestic use, yet all having a unique and personal character.  In its flexibility, versatility and expressiveness, the potter’s wheel is much more like a musical instrument than it is a machine.” 

                         Quote from Bernard Leach about the potter’s wheel.