82 Quotes by Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.