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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
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Painter
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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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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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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 never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.
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A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
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The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling.
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Character is the architect of the being.
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Everytime I put on clothes, I’m creating a picture.
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I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.
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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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My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.
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There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.
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I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
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I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.
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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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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 have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.
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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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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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I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.
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