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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.
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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Painter
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Louise B. Nevelson
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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Leike Berliawsky
Louise née Berliawsky
Louise nee Berliawsky
Leah Berliawsky
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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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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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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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A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
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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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If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.
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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'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.
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True strength is delicate.
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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 knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy.
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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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Everytime I put on clothes, I’m creating a picture.
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I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.
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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 think all great innovations are built on rejections.
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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'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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I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.
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