“ The aim of the craftsman is not to fill the world with objects but to build first one, then another. Different. Slowly. To make articles and patterns for different purposes, for the hand, for the eye. To make a statement. To amuse us. Quite simply to listen to the language of the self and the language of the materials to be worked.”

“Made by Hand: Finnish Applied Art 1981”
quoted in kasityon ulottuvuuksia
hantverket/dimensions of handicraft

“Craftswork is a form of spiritual growth as well as an honorble way of making a living. The object or pot that results is a gift to the world. the crafts do not insist that the aesthetic be divorced from the useful and the decorative.”

“The crafts have a mission, which is the improvement of the quality of everyday life--no mean task--through the exercise, development, and celebration of spiritual values as transmitted
or created by the craftsworker’s aesthetic transformation of matter.”

Excerpts from an essay:
“The Mainstream: Dangerous Waters”
by John Perreault, Studio Potter June 1990