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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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Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Leike Berliawsky
Louise née Berliawsky
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Leah Berliawsky
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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 never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.
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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've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.
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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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True strength is delicate.
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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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I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy.
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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 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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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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Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.
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It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
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I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.
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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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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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Character is the architect of the being.
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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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Everytime I put on clothes, I’m creating a picture.
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