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 WOODAnd I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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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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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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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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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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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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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
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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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And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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