60 Quotes by Beatrice Wood

You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.

The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

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.

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.

Celibacy is exhausting.

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love

You can't change the world, you can only change yourself.

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.