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The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.
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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Leike Berliawsky
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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 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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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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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 never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.
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I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
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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've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.
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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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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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I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.
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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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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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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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I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.
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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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