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I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.

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
Louise née Berliawsky
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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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If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.
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I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
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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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The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.
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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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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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Character is the architect of the being.
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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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My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.
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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 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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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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Everytime I put on clothes, I’m creating a picture.
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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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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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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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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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It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
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