Louise Nevelson Quotes

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.

True strength is delicate.

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

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

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.

You must create your own world. I'm responsible for my world.

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

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.

Life isn't one straight line. Most of us have to be transplanted, like a tree, before we blossom.

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

I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.

I never feel age ... If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.

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

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