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… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share
I think people should think a million times before they give birth. The guilts of motherhood were the worst guilts in the… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
I only know this - that you can’t give advice to an artist. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
I never for one minute questioned what I had to do. I did not think for one minute that I didn't have what I… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
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…… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
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.… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share
The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
I feel totally female. I didn't compete with men and I don't want to look like a man! I love being a lady and… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
