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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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[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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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.
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I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.
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Some of us come on earth seeing. Some of us come on earth seeing color.
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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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Anywhere I found wood I took it home and started working with it.. to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.
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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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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.
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Louise Nevelson
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Born:
September 23, 1899
Died:
April 17, 1988
(aged 88)
Bio:
Louise Nevelson was an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures.
Known for:
Sky Cathedral (1958)
Clown tight rope walker (1942)
Sky Landscape (1988)
Night Sail (1983)
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