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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.

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.
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Mean Thinking Time
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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Art Bridge Country Plumbing
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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Facts Firsts Work
I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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Art Books Chocolate Men Owe
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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Important Matter Pearls
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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Another Come Contribute Each Once Pearl True
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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Air Inspiration People
Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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Country Crafts Wonderful
But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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Knows Persons Realizing
Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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Giving Over Point
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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Energy Overcoming People
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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Charming Mother Unhappy
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Mind Poet Rich
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Girl Stage Way
Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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Girls Love Most Stage Stuck
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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Art Usual Work

Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.

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