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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.
And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
And then I was three years at Shipley's and in between, summers, we always went to Europe.
And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
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.
And it's the same with pottery. You see, I'm not a chemist. And I do the whole thing by hunches.
And I was very unhappy in my family.
And I was a very proper, shy little girl and enchanted because one of the girls climbed out the window to meet a young boy.
And I thought overnight I - over the weekend - I could make a luster teapot.
And I think the young people of that day wanted nothing to do with the old world as it was established. And, therefore, they became anti-art and anti-everything.