Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Angel, Voice, Drawing

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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.

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  Horse, People, Tree

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

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Art, Teaching, Firsts

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• When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Next Week, Waiting, Pieces

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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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• I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy.

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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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• 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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• 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'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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