Beatrice Wood's Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

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.

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

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

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

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

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

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

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

First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

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

I was in a convent for a year.

I'm not too interested in books about India.

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

Sex is energy.

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

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