Beatrice Wood Quotations

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

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

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

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

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.

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife

First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

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

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

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

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

I'm not too interested in books about India.

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

And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I was in a convent for a year.

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

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

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.

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.

Celibacy is exhausting.

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

I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love

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

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.

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

That ever since I've been a child I've been interested in art and been dragged through all the museums of Europe and had the sense to buy art books.

We moved immediately to New York and then I was taken over to Paris and I learned to read French before I learned to read English.

And my first museum show was at Santa Barbara, then the de Young. And, I think it was after the de Young, I had a show at the Los Angeles Museum.