Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Quotes

Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of an innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise. ... Each piece seems to have a life of its own. Every little piece or every big piece that I make becomes a very living thing to me, very living. I could make a million pieces; the next piece gives me a whole new thing. It is a new center. Life is total at that particular time. And that's why it's right. That reaffirms my life.

I wanted everybody to see a sunrise and be knocked out by the miracle of it, the world being created every morning.

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old - / These fields and mountains!

I want each season to feel new and special. I don't want it to feel, "Oh, more of this." That's something that's easy to do in the first three seasons, and harder to do as you go. I'd rather err on the side of blowing up everything and being like, "Why did you do that? There was more story to tell there," and moving the family to Mexico like on Weeds, instead of people going, "Oh, we've seen this already. We're tired of this."

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

I'm a believer in just open, free-form creativity, and you never know the surprises that life has in store, and that, purely on a creative level, there's no such thing as rules.

A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.

Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

I've never been one of those guys who storyboards every frame, because that would take away some of the mystery and some of the fun.

I want to evolve each season. I never want to be one of those brands where people know what they're going to see. I always want an element of surprise. One thing I never want to do is copy what anybody else is doing. I have a signature, and it's very important to me to stay true to that.

Whether you like it or not, a child really connects you to that time when everything's new. It's so important - not just for artistic endeavors, but for humanity.

I always try to incorporate something in every book that I've never used before. Hopefully, spontaneity will keep readers reading.

Something that's very important is to preserve the sense of surprise, the sense of discovery. The eye of the person you are talking to, your shadow on the ground. It's important not to get suffocated by all the things in life and lose that sense of surprise.

I constantly want to do something new and surprise the audience.

The element of surprise is the most important thing and what keeps me interested in writing. I can feel it if I've written that predictable or boring line, and I will carry that around with me all day.

That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end.

The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.

The artist is always beginning.

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.