“Anywhere I found wood I took it home and started working with it.. to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.”

—  Louise Nevelson

Dawns and Dusks, reprinted in Theories and documents of contemporary art: A sourcebook of artists' writings edited by Kristine Stiles, Peter Howard Selz, p. 511

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