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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.
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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Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Leike Berliawsky
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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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My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.
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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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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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I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
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True strength is delicate.
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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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