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True strength is delicate.

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
Delicate
Strength
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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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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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I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.
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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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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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If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.
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I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.
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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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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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Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.
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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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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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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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I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
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