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It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
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
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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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My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.
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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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Everytime I put on clothes, I’m creating a picture.
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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've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.
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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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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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If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.
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A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
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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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I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.
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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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