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
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.
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.
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.
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
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.
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.
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.
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.
I'm not too interested in books about India.