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Character is the architect of the being.

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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Kindness

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Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.
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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 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 see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
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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 make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.
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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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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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The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.
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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 never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.
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A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
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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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A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.
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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've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.
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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 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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