Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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.
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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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Do be true to yourself, whether it’s bad doesn’t matter. The important thing – you have to copy while you’re studying.
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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 was in a convent for a year.
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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.
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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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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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First of all, I’d like to say here the fact that I’m not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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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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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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