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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.
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
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Leike Berliawsky
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A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
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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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I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
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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 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 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 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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It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
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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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The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.
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