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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.
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
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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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I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.
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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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Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.
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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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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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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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Everytime I put on clothes, I’m creating a picture.
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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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A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
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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'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.
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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 see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
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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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You know when I decided to become professional - that means to expose yourself naked to the world with the other creative minds - I said, 'I'm going into areas I don't know. I might just fall right down to hell and kill myself.
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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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True strength is delicate.
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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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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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I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy.
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