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
I hang on to the statement of scientists that there is no time. Therefore, join me in telling everyone you are thirty-two. This allows me to go after young men and plan grabbing husbands from my girlfriends. Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
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.
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
Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.
You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
I'm not too interested in books about India.
I was in a convent for a year.
I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
Celibacy is exhausting.
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.
I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love