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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.
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'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.
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True strength is delicate.
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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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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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I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
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A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
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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 feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.
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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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I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.
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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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I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.
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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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It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
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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 never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.
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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 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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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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