Beatrice Wood
I was in a convent for a year.
I was engaged to be married. And the young man pressured me into becoming engaged. I wasn't really in love with him.
I never meant to become a potter.
I made up my mind I was just going to be myself. And I met them that way and I had a tremendous success with the Indian people.
I have no sense of price at all.
I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
I got much closer to Marcel after I broke with Roche.
I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
Gordon Craig was the illegitimate son of Ellen Terry, the father of one of Isadora Duncan's children, and the great innovator of scenic design in the theatre.
Five hundred girls in the convent, I remember, and I liked it because they give you these beautiful watered ribbons every week for good conduct, with medals.
First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
But I'm not a religious person, and though I learned to memorize the New Testament in French, I'm very anti-religious. Very.
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
But I do what is the forbidden thing for a real good ceramist. I cook.
Because, whatever faults I have, I am more truthful than the average person, and certainly very concerned with truth.
And, you see, all this period now I was very shy, and the Frenchman was Edgar Varese, the composer. And I was a little bit shocked because one leg, which he'd broken, was in a cast and the other was hairy, staying outside his bed and that rather embarrassed me.