chapter excerpt from
Particular Passions:
Talks with Women who Shaped our Times

Then also I think being an artist is a state of mind. There were a great many frustrations in my life, too. But the only thing I can say is that I was looking for harmony and I think my long suit was that I was able to remember things and externalize them. I wanted harmony within myself, so I externalized it in my work." ~Louise Nevelson