Louise Nevelson Short Quotes

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I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

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And I believe that the physical is the geography of the being.

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I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy.

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Some of us come on earth seeing. Some of us come on earth seeing color.

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I never feel age.... If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.

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Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives.

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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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In the end, as you get older and older, your life is your life, and you are alone with it.

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What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

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It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.

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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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In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall. That's the only place where everything is all right.

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The freer that women become, the freer will men be. Because when you enslave someone — you are enslaved.

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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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The essence of living is in doing, and in doing, I have made my world and it's a much better world than I ever saw outside.

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If you have got a living force and you're not using it, nature kicks you back. The blood boils just like you put it in a pot.

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My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

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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.

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I think that in the sexual act, as delightful as it can be, the very physical part of it is, yes, a hammering away. So it has a certain brutality.

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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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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.

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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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