My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.
Louise Berliawsky NevelsonI began to stack my sculptures into an environment. It was natural. It was a flowing of energy.
Louise Berliawsky NevelsonWhen 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 NevelsonMy husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.
Louise Berliawsky NevelsonI'm a work horse. I like to work. I always did. I think that there is such a thing as energy, creation overflowing. And I always felt that I have this great energy and it was bound to sort of burst at the seams, so that my work automatically took its place with a mind like mine. I've never had a day when I didn't want to work. I've never had a day like that. And I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy. I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working. ... In my studio I'm as happy as a cow in her stall.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson