Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Louise Nevelsonwas an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth23 September 1899
CountryUnited States of America
world saws made
I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.
color earth seeing
Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.
clothes creating
Everytime I put on clothes, I’m creating a picture.
spiritual people together
When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.
hard
It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
lonely loneliness long
I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.
healing light darkness
And I saw darkness for weeks. It never dawned on me that I could come out of it, but you heal. Nature heals you, and you do come out of it. All of a sudden I saw a crack of light ... then all of a sudden I saw another crack of light. Then I saw forms in the light. And I recognized that there was no darkness, that in darkness there'll always be light.
mirrors matter individual
No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.
self hell born
It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.
blood like-you pot
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.
thinking brutality certain
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.
artist giving titles
Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives.
blessing artist years
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.
horse people tree
What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people.