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A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
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
Sculptor
Pereiaslavl
Louise B. Nevelson
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Louise Berliawsky
Leike Berliawsky
Louise née Berliawsky
Louise nee Berliawsky
Leah Berliawsky
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Whisper
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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 have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.
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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.
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The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.
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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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Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.
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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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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've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.
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I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
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It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
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I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
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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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True strength is delicate.
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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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I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy.
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Character is the architect of the being.
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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 make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.
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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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