black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.

Beatrice Wood

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
BEATRICE WOOD

Art Usual Work
Celibacy is exhausting.
BEATRICE WOOD

Celibacy Exhaust Sexuality
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
BEATRICE WOOD

Mind Poet Rich
I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
BEATRICE WOOD

Finest Life Pieces
And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
BEATRICE WOOD

Great India Life Things
Do be true to yourself, whether it’s bad doesn’t matter. The important thing – you have to copy while you’re studying.
BEATRICE WOOD

Important Matter Pearls
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 WOOD

Another Come Contribute Each Once Pearl True
I was in a convent for a year.
BEATRICE WOOD

Convent Hope Years
Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
BEATRICE WOOD

Country Crafts Wonderful
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.
BEATRICE WOOD

Energy Overcoming People
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
BEATRICE WOOD

Charming Mother Unhappy
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
BEATRICE WOOD

Girl Stage Way
I’m not too interested in books about India.
BEATRICE WOOD

Book India Interested
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.
BEATRICE WOOD

Mean Thinking Time
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.
BEATRICE WOOD

Girlfriend Husband Men
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
BEATRICE WOOD

Air Inspiration People

You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Beatrice Wood Quotes