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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.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Age: 88 †
Born: 1899
Born: September 23
Died: 1988
Died: April 17
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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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A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
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It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.
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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 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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I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.
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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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If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.
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The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.
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Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.
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I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
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What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people.
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I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.
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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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