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.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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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

pieces waiting next-week

But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all.... You can be quiet and it contains the whole thing.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

black color acceptance

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.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

dawn earth thinking