Quotes by Beatrice Wood

• I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
• I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
• I was in a convent for a year.
• 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.
• Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.
• Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
• Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
• And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
• You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
• My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
• You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
• First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
• Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
• But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
• But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
• And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
• And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
• 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.
• And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
• A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
• Sex is energy.
• Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
• But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
• I'm not too interested in books about India.
• 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.