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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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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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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 have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.
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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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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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My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.
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Character is the architect of the being.
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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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It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
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True strength is delicate.
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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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I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
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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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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 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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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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A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.
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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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If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.
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