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Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Inspirational Quotes (38)

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Character is the architect of the being.
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I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
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I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it.... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.
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I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.
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I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy.
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I feel totally female. I didn't compete with men and I don't want to look like a man! I love being a lady and dressing up and masquerading and wearing all the fineries. I'm breaking down the idea that the artist has to look poor, with berets.
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When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.
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There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.
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The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling.
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I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.
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My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.
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It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.
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Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.
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It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
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I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.
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I still want to do my work. I still want to do my livingness. And I have lived. I have been fulfilled. I recognized what I had, and I never sold it short. And I ain't through yet.
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In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall. That's the only place where everything is all right.
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I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.
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In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line… From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.
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Everytime I put on clothes, I’m creating a picture.
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You know when I decided to become professional - that means to expose yourself naked to the world with the other creative minds - I said, 'I'm going into areas I don't know. I might just fall right down to hell and kill myself.
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If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back. The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.
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You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.
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I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.
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