My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson More Quotes by Louise Berliawsky Nevelson More Quotes From Louise Berliawsky Nevelson True strength is delicate. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson true-strength delicate strength 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. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson spiritual together people 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. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson sad pain art No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson individual mirrors matter We must create our own world. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson april world I'm a work horse. I like to work. I always did. I think that there is such a thing as energy, creation overflowing. And I always felt that I have this great energy and it was bound to sort of burst at the seams, so that my work automatically took its place with a mind like mine. I've never had a day when I didn't want to work. I've never had a day like that. And I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy. I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working. ... In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson horse work thinking I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson creative mind art You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson pieces white trying 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. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson light darkness healing 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. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson pieces artist giving 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. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson lines art school I think all great innovations are built on rejections. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson rejection innovation thinking It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson hell born self A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson atoms mountain stronger 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. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson paper people thinking Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson travel I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson harmony creating world You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson responsible responsibility world 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. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson work joy believe The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson diversity justice men
