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 WOODThe only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
-
-
I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
BEATRICE WOOD -
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 WOOD -
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
BEATRICE WOOD -
I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
BEATRICE WOOD -
And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
BEATRICE 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 WOOD -
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
BEATRICE WOOD -
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
BEATRICE WOOD -
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
BEATRICE WOOD -
First of all, I’d like to say here the fact that I’m not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
BEATRICE WOOD -
You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
BEATRICE WOOD -
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
BEATRICE WOOD -
Celibacy is exhausting.
BEATRICE WOOD -
My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
BEATRICE WOOD -
Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
BEATRICE WOOD






