Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)

“If you paint a thing black or you paint a thing white, it takes on a whole different dimension. The white and the black invite different forms…a state of mind enters into it…I feel that white permits a little something to enter. I do not know whether it’s a mood, probably it’s a little more light, just as you see it in the universe. The white is more festive. The forms have just that edge. For me, the black contains the silhouette, the essence of the universe. But the white has more freedom, it moves out a little bit into outer space.”

Louise Nevelson (L. Nevelson quoted in Louise Nevelson Sculpture 1957-1987, exh. cat., PaceWildenstein, March-April 1997, p. 10.)