I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
BEATRICE WOOD
BEATRICE WOOD
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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
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood 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 WoodBeatrice Wood My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood Do be true to yourself, whether it’s bad doesn’t matter. The important thing – you have to copy while you’re studying.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood I was in a convent for a year.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood 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.
Beatrice WoodBeatrice Wood 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 WoodBeatrice Wood 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 WoodBeatrice Wood Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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