Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Quotes - Page 3

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• Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.' I am not saying that I learned my name, animals can learn their names, I am saying that they learned it.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Teacher, School, Artist

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• I was discouraged about life, discouraged about people being blind, but I don't think I had a day that I ever questioned creativity. There has never been a day like that.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Confidence, Creativity, Thinking

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• Character is the architect of the being.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Kindness, Character, Be Kind

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• My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Mother, Mentor, Sympathetic

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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.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Want, Fulfilled, Stills

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• I think that in the sexual act, as delightful as it can be, the very physical part of it is, yes, a hammering away. So it has a certain brutality.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Thinking, Brutality, Certain

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• [Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Effort, Taste, Century

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• What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Horse, People, Tree

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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 began to stack my sculptures into an environment. It was natural. It was a flowing of energy.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Energy, Sculpture, Environment

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• If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Business, Blow, World

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• I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Lonely, Loneliness, Long

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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.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Birth, Kind, Surprise

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• I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Powerful, Mean, Men

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