Beatrice Wood

Artist

26 Quotes

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

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

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

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

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.

Sex is energy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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