Al Langsenkamp Quotes

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.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.

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.

Here in America we`re doing the most wonderful crafts.

Yes, because when you`re in love, you are shy.

I don`t like to sell my finest pieces.

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

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.

I`m not too interested in books about India.

Well, I don`t go out much socially. I don`t enjoy going out.

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.

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

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

But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.

Sex is energy.

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

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 was in a convent for a year.

Over and over I`m on the point of giving it up.

And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn`t want to leave things on consignment.

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.

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.

But you can`t realize, you can`t know what another person goes through.

First of all, I`d like to say here the fact that I`m not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.

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.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

My life is full of mistakes. They`re like pebbles that make a good road.