Beatrice Wood Quotes

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

  Beatrice Wood

  Art, Book, Men

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

  Beatrice Wood

  Life, Happiness, Mistake

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• Do be true to yourself, whether it's bad doesn't matter. The important thing - you have to copy while you're studying. 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.

  Beatrice Wood

  Important, Pearls, Matter

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

  Beatrice Wood

  World, Changing The World, Change Yourself

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• I hang on to the statement of scientists that there is no time. Therefore, join me in telling everyone you are thirty-two. This allows me to go after young men and plan grabbing husbands from my girlfriends. Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.

  Beatrice Wood

  Girlfriend, Husband, Men

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• 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.

  Beatrice Wood

  People, Overcoming, Energy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Beatrice Wood

  Color, Tone, Potters

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

  Beatrice Wood

  Inspiration, Air, People

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

  Beatrice Wood

  Realizing, Persons, Knows

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

  Beatrice Wood

  Giving

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

  Beatrice Wood

  Way, Tramps, Persons

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• 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

  Life, Sex, Views

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• I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love

  Beatrice Wood

  Adventure, And Love, Danger

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• Celibacy is exhausting.

  Beatrice Wood

  Celibacy, Sexuality, Exhausting

  Garth Clark, Beatrice Wood (2001). “Gilded Vessel: The Lustrous Art and Life of Beatrice Wood”, Guild

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

  Beatrice Wood

  Mind, Rich, Poet

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• 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

  Time, Mean, Thinking

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• I happen to believe that there is an afterlife

  Beatrice Wood

  Believe, Afterlife, Happens

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• 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

  Life, Thinking, Inspire

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

  Beatrice Wood

  America, Crafts, Wonderful

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

  Beatrice Wood

  Mother, Unhappy, Charming

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

  Beatrice Wood

  Art, Work, Usual

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

  Beatrice Wood

  Love, Love You, Shy

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

  Beatrice Wood

  Going Out, Enjoy, Wells

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• 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

  Work, Firsts, Facts

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• I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

  Beatrice Wood

  Life, Pieces, Finest

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