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Everytime I put on clothes, I’m creating a picture.

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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Painter
Printmaker
Sculptor
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Louise B. Nevelson
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Louise Berliawsky
Leike Berliawsky
Louise née Berliawsky
Louise nee Berliawsky
Leah Berliawsky
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy.
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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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A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.
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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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I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
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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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If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.
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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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Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.
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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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