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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.
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
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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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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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My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.
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Character is the architect of the being.
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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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If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.
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True strength is delicate.
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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 knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy.
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Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.
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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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It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
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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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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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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.
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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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What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people.
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Everytime I put on clothes, I’m creating a picture.
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I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.
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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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