Beatrice Wood Quotes (29 Quotes)

And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.

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

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

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

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

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

I was in a convent for a year.

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

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

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.

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

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.

That ever since I've been a child I've been interested in art and been dragged through all the museums of Europe and had the sense to buy art books.

And my first museum show was at Santa Barbara, then the de Young. And, I think it was after the de Young, I had a show at the Los Angeles Museum.

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

We moved immediately to New York and then I was taken over to Paris and I learned to read French before I learned to read English.

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

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

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

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

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

Sex is energy.

Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.

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.

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

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

I'm not too interested in books about India.

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

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.