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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.
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
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Louise Berliawsky
Leike Berliawsky
Louise née Berliawsky
Louise nee Berliawsky
Leah Berliawsky
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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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I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.
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I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.
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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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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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Character is the architect of the being.
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I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.
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