And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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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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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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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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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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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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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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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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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 see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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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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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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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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