Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
BEATRICE WOODAnd 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.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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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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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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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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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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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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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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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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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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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.
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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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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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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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