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 WOODThe 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.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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I was in a convent for a year.
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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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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 can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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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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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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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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