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
strength true-strength delicate
True strength is delicate.
sad art pain
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.
mountain stronger atoms
A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
travel
Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.
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.
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.
hard
It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
kind birth surprise
Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise.
world responsible
You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world.
business blow world
If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.
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.
artist giving titles
Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives.
effort taste periods
[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.
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.