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I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Age: 88 †
Born: 1899
Born: September 23
Died: 1988
Died: April 17
Draftsperson
Painter
Printmaker
Sculptor
Pereiaslavl
Louise B. Nevelson
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Louise Berliawsky
Leike Berliawsky
Louise née Berliawsky
Louise nee Berliawsky
Leah Berliawsky
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Bronze
Stones
Waste
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Time
Polishing
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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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It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
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I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.
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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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If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.
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I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
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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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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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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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True strength is delicate.
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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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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 make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.
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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'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.
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A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.
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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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