Beatrice Wood Quotes & Sayings

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

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

When the ball that was my heart ws broken, ... laughter fell out. — Beatrice Wood

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

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

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

I don't like to sell my finest pieces. — Beatrice Wood

I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love — Beatrice Wood

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

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

I'm not too interested in books about India. — Beatrice Wood

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

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

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

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

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife. — Beatrice Wood

Celibacy is exhausting. — Beatrice Wood

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

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

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. — Beatrice Wood

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was in a convent for a year. — 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

I owe it all to chocolate and young men. — Beatrice Wood

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

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

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

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

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