Beatrice Wood
You see, the First World War had a very shocking . . . it shocked all that generation of young people, including the artists.
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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.
You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
When I was in Rome a masseuse said that the happiest marriages she knew, the only happy ones, were with older women and younger men.
Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.
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.
They weren't millionaires, but they were very comfortably off, so that we had a Cadillac in those days and we took trips to Europe.
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.
Then they brought me back and put me in a private school. I went to Miss Ely's, which was the fashionable finishing school in those years.
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.
That ever since I've been a child I've been interested in art and been dragged through all the museums of Europe and had the sense to buy art books.
Sex is energy.
Roche was a very interesting man, but I have had the unfortunate experience of feeling that all men are bastards.
Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
I've a record of every single pot.
I'm not too interested in books about India.
I was interested in the theatre as an art and, after a few years in it, gave it up.