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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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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 never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.
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I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
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I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.
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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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A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
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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 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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