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
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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.
I'm not too interested in books about India.
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.
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.
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.
And my first museum show was at Santa Barbara, then the de Young. And, I think it was after the de Young, I had a show at the Los Angeles Museum.
I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
You can't change the world, you can only change yourself.
My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
Celibacy is exhausting.
Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.