Quotes by Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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.

Century

Effort

Taste

A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

Atoms

Mountain

Stronger

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.

Art

Reflection

School

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.

Differences

Men

Stronger

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.

Darkness

Healing

Light

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 to me, very living. I could make a million pieces; the next piece gives me a whole new thing. It is a new center. Life is total at that particular time. And that’s why it’s right. That reaffirms my life.

Artist

Giving

Pieces

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.

Birth

Kind

Surprise

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.

Acceptance

Black

Color

Character is the architect of the being.

Be Kind

Character

Kindness

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.

Artist

School

Teacher

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Acceptance

Advice

Age

Agreement

Angel

April

Art

Artist

Atoms

Be Kind

Believe

Birth

Black

Blessing

Blood

Blow

Body

Boring

Born

Break

Brutality

Business

Century

Certain

Character

Circles

Clothes

Color

Confidence

Cows

Creating

Creative

Creativity

Darkness

Dawn

Delicate

Demand

Differences

Diversity

Drawing

Earth

Effort

Ends

Energy

Environment

Fall

Firsts

Fulfilled

Gambling

Giving

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Quotes by Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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.

A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.

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.

A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.

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.

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.

Character is the architect of the being.

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.

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