Do be true to yourself, whether it's bad doesn't matter. The important thing - you have to copy while you're studying. And culture is - each of us - is like one pearl added to another to make a chain. We each contribute to the other. And that's all right. But once you're on your own, do that which comes from within. And I feel this very strongly.

Beatrice Wood

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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.

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

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You can't change the world, you can only change yourself.

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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.

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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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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.

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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love

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

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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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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife

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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts

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

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

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

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Celibacy is exhausting.

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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

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

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

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