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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
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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've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.
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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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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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What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people.
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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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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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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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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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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 see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
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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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I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
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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 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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A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
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A white lace curtain on the window was for me as important as a great work of art. This gossamer quality, the reflection, the form, the movement. I learned more about art from that than I did in school.
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Everytime I put on clothes, I’m creating a picture.
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