And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
BEATRICE WOODFirst of all, I’d like to say here the fact that I’m not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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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.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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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.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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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.
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