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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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Tickle
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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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Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise.
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Everytime I put on clothes, I’m creating a picture.
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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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My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.
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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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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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I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.
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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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My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.
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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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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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Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.
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A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
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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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True strength is delicate.
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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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I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally.
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I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.
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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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