Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Quotes
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You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world.
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In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall. That's the only place where everything is all right.
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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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Everytime I put on clothes, I’m creating a picture.
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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.
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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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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.
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I think people should think a million times before they give birth. The guilts of motherhood were the worst guilts in the world for me. They were really insurmountable. You see, you are depriving another human being of so many things, and the other party also knows it.
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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.
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No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.
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I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.
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I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.
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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.
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I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.
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I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.
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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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We must create our own world.
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I only know this - that you can’t give advice to an artist.
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Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of an innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise. ... Each piece seems to have a life of its own. Every little piece or every big piece that I make becomes a very living thing to me, very living. I could make a million pieces; the next piece gives me a whole new thing. It is a new center. Life is total at that particular time. And that's why it's right. That reaffirms my life.
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It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.
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I don’t demand that all work be a masterpiece. What I am doing is the right thing for me - that is what I am and this is living. It reflects me and I reflect it.
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It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
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The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.
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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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I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.
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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.
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Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.
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I began to stack my sculptures into an environment. It was natural. It was a flowing of energy.
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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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My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.
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Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
- Born: September 23, 1899
- Died: April 17, 1988
- Occupation: Artist
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