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 NevelsonAnother 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 NevelsonIf 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 NevelsonI see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
Louise Berliawsky NevelsonAnd 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