62+ Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Quotes On Art, Abstract And Expressionist

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson was an American sculptor known for her abstract expressionist sculptures composed of found objects. She was one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century and the first American woman to achieve international recognition in the art world. Nevelson is best known for her monumental, monochromatic sculptures made of wood, often painted in black. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Louise Berliawsky Nevelson on love, art, life.

Top 10 Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Quotes

1. True strength is delicate.
2. 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.
3. No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.
4. What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
5. 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.
6. I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.
7. I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
8. I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
9. I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.
10. I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Short Quotes

• If they blow it [the world] up, that's not my business. My business is to work.
• A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
• Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.
• It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
• I began to stack my sculptures into an environment. It was natural. It was a flowing of energy.
• A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.
• My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.
• I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world.
• Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.
• I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Quotes About Art

A white lace curtain on the window was for me as important as a great work of art. This gossamer quality, the reflection, the form, the movement. I learned more about art from that than I did in school. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Quotes About Life

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

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. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Quotes About Create

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

We must create our own world. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Everytime I put on clothes, I’m creating a picture. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Quotes About Artists

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 dressing up and masquerading and wearing all the fineries. I'm breaking down the idea that the artist has to look poor, with berets. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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

Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.' I am not saying that I learned my name, animals can learn their names, I am saying that they learned it. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I only know this - that you can’t give advice to an artist. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Famous Quotes And Sayings

You know when I decided to become professional - that means to expose yourself naked to the world with the other creative minds - I said, 'I'm going into areas I don't know. I might just fall right down to hell and kill myself. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I don’t demand that all work be a masterpiece. What I am doing is the right thing for me - that is what I am and this is living. It reflects me and I reflect it. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Character is the architect of the being. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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

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. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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

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. And I recognized that there was no darkness, that in darkness there'll always be light. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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

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

[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. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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 had. If just didn't dawn on me. And so if you know what you have, then you know that there's nobody on earth that can affect you. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shouldn't people. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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

When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I feel that women 'and men,' but I mean the 'individual,' can be totally feminine and still be totally powerful. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Greatness breaks laws. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I believe that the physical is the geography of the being. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I still want to do my work. I still want to do my livingness. And I have lived. I have been fulfilled. I recognized what I had, and I never sold it short. And I ain't through yet. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Life Lessons by Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

1. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson's work demonstrates the importance of creative risk-taking and experimentation in the pursuit of artistic expression.
2. Her use of found objects to create abstract sculptures highlights the potential of everyday materials to become something extraordinary.
3. Nevelson's work also serves as a reminder of the power of art to create a sense of beauty and wonder in the world.