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 WOODCertainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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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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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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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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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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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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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
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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