Beatrice Wood famous quotes

I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
-- Beatrice Wood

#Art #Book #Men

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

#Important #Culture #Pearls

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
-- Beatrice Wood

#Happiness #Mistake #Pebbles

I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
-- Beatrice Wood

#Adventure #And Love #Danger

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
-- Beatrice Wood

#Art #America #Theatre

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
-- Beatrice Wood

#Way #Tramps #Persons

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

#Firsts #Facts #Craftsman

Celibacy is exhausting.
-- Beatrice Wood

#Celibacy #Sexuality

You can't change the world, you can only change yourself.
-- Beatrice Wood

#World #Changing The World #Change Yourself

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
-- Beatrice Wood

#Realizing #Persons

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
-- Beatrice Wood

#Mother #Unhappy #Charming

You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
-- Beatrice Wood

#Girl #Way #Stage

I was in a convent for a year.
-- Beatrice Wood

#Years

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
-- Beatrice Wood

#Pieces #Finest

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

#Time #Mean #Thinking

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

#Sex #Believe #Romantic Love

Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
-- Beatrice Wood

#Love You #Shy

The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
-- Beatrice Wood

#Art #Bridges #America

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts
-- Beatrice Wood

#America #Crafts #Wonderful

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

#Sex #Views #Two

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
-- Beatrice Wood

#Art #Work #Usual

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
-- Beatrice Wood

#India #Great Things

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
-- Beatrice Wood

#Mind #Rich #Poet

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.
-- Beatrice Wood

#Inspiration #Air #People

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
-- Beatrice Wood

#Believe #Afterlife

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

#Girlfriend #Husband #Men

Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
-- Beatrice Wood

#Giving

Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.
-- Beatrice Wood

#Going Out #Enjoy #Wells

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
-- Beatrice Wood

#Acting #Actresses

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
-- Beatrice Wood

#Color #Potters #Earth

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

#Life #Thinking #Sorrow

I'm not too interested in books about India.
-- Beatrice Wood

#Book #India