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
BEATRICE WOODYou see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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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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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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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 owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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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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I was in a convent for a year.
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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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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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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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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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