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
want stills fulfilled
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.
thinking people paper
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.
husband creativity circles
My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.
powerful mean men
I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful.
business blow world
If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.
mountain stronger atoms
A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
love-is men artist
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.
cows studios
In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall. That's the only place where everything is all right.
work believe joy
I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally.
travel
Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.
fall mean creative
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.
thinking earth dawn
I never for one minute questioned what I had to do. I did not think for one minute that I didn't have what I had. If just didn't dawn on me. And so if you know what you have, then you know that there's nobody on earth that can affect you.
confidence creativity thinking
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.
next-week waiting pieces
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.