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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
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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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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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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If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.
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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 make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.
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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 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 believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally.
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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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What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people.
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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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True strength is delicate.
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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 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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I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
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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'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.
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It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
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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 have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.
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