Louise Nevelson said:

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

I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

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.

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

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

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.