Beatrice Wood Quotes

I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

You can't change the world, you can only change yourself.

I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

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.

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts

First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

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

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.

Celibacy is exhausting.

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

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.

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.

You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.

I was in a convent for a year.

I'm not too interested in books about India.

The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.

I will listen to a beautiful person much more quickly than a plain person, and I have to learn to be nice to people who are not attractive looking.