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I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.

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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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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My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.
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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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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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If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.
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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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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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A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.
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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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What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people.
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I feel totally female. I didn't compete with men and I don't want to look like a man! I love being a lady and dressing up and masquerading and wearing all the fineries. I'm breaking down the idea that the artist has to look poor, with berets.
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I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.
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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 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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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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I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
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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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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 think all great innovations are built on rejections.
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