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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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Louise B. Nevelson
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Leike Berliawsky
Louise née Berliawsky
Louise nee Berliawsky
Leah Berliawsky
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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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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've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.
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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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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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It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
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I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
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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 still want to do my work. I still want to do my livingness. And I have lived. I have been fulfilled. I recognized what I had, and I never sold it short. And I ain't through yet.
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I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
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Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.
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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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My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.
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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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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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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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A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.
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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 make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.
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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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