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If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.
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
Louise Berliawsky
Leike Berliawsky
Louise née Berliawsky
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I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.
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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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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'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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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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My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.
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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 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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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 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 think all great innovations are built on rejections.
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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 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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Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.
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Character is the architect of the being.
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It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
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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 whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
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