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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.
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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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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I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy.
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True strength is delicate.
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Everytime I put on clothes, I’m creating a picture.
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It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
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Character is the architect of the being.
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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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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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You know when I decided to become professional - that means to expose yourself naked to the world with the other creative minds - I said, 'I'm going into areas I don't know. I might just fall right down to hell and kill myself.
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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 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 see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
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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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