Beatrice Wood quotes

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road. (Beatrice Wood)
I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
Beatrice Wood
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
Beatrice Wood
I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
Beatrice Wood
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.
Beatrice Wood
And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
Beatrice Wood
But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
Beatrice Wood
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
Beatrice Wood
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
Beatrice Wood
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
Beatrice Wood
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. (Beatrice Wood)
Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
Beatrice Wood
I was in a convent for a year.
Beatrice Wood
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
Beatrice Wood
I'm not too interested in books about India.
Beatrice Wood
And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
Beatrice Wood
Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
Beatrice Wood
Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out. (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
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
Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
Beatrice Wood
And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
Beatrice Wood