The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
BEATRICE WOODI don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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I was in a convent for a year.
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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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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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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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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 you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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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.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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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.
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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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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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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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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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