Beatrice Wood
Beatrice Wood
Beatrice Woodwas 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. She had earlier studied art and theater in Paris, and was working in New York as an actress. She later worked at sculpture and pottery. Wood was characterized as the "Mama of Dada."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth3 March 1893
CountryUnited States of America
We moved immediately to New York and then I was taken over to Paris and I learned to read French before I learned to read English.
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.
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.
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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.
I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
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.