82 Quotes by Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Character is the architect of the being.

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.

I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.

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

Everytime I put on clothes, I’m creating a picture.

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.

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

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

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.