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Beatrice Wood [1893-1998] American
Rank: 102
Artist


Beatrice Wood was an American artist and studio potter involved in the Avant Garde movement in the United States; she founded The Blind Man magazine in New York City with French artist Marcel Duchamp and writer Henri-Pierre Roché in 1916.

Art, Chance, Romantic, Work

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