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.
party motherhood thinking
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.
mountain stronger atoms
A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
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.
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.