1.
I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
Beatrice Wood
2.
My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
Beatrice Wood
3.
Do be true to yourself, whether it's bad doesn't matter. The important thing - you have to copy while you're studying. And culture is - each of us - is like one pearl added to another to make a chain. We each contribute to the other. And that's all right. But once you're on your own, do that which comes from within. And I feel this very strongly.
Beatrice Wood
4.
You can't change the world, you can only change yourself.
Beatrice Wood
5.
Hardships and handicaps can...stimulate our energy to survive them. You'll find if you study the lives of people who've accomplished things, it's often been done with the help of great willpower in overcoming this and that.
Beatrice Wood
6.
I hang on to the statement of scientists that there is no time. Therefore, join me in telling everyone you are thirty-two. This allows me to go after young men and plan grabbing husbands from my girlfriends. Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
Beatrice Wood
7.
I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
Beatrice Wood
8.
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.
Beatrice Wood
9.
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
Beatrice Wood
10.
And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
Beatrice Wood
11.
The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.
Beatrice Wood
12.
I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
Beatrice Wood
13.
Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
Beatrice Wood
14.
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
Beatrice Wood
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts
Beatrice Wood
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
Beatrice Wood
17.
But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
Beatrice Wood
18.
Celibacy is exhausting.
Beatrice Wood
19.
You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex
Beatrice Wood
20.
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
Beatrice Wood
21.
There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
Beatrice Wood
22.
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
Beatrice Wood
23.
Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.
Beatrice Wood
24.
I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
Beatrice Wood
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
Beatrice Wood
26.
You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
Beatrice Wood
27.
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
Beatrice Wood
28.
I was in a convent for a year.
Beatrice Wood
29.
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
Beatrice Wood
30.
Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
Beatrice Wood
31.
I'm not too interested in books about India.
Beatrice Wood
32.
And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
Beatrice Wood
33.
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
Beatrice Wood