Beatrice Wood Quotes

 "I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men." ~ Beatrice Wood

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

 "You can't change the world, you can only change yourself." ~ Beatrice Wood

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

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

 "Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up." ~ Beatrice Wood

 "I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love" ~ 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

 "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

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

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

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

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

 "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

 "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

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

 "The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges." ~ Beatrice Wood