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I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.
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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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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If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.
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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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I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.
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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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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 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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The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.
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In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line… From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.
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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 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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I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
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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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What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people.
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A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
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True strength is delicate.
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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 never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.
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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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I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
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