Even with her influence upon feminist artists, Nevelson's opinion of discrimination within the art world bordered on the belief that artists who were not gaining success based on gender suffered from a lack of confidence. When asked by "Feminist Art Journal" if she suffered from sexism within the art world, Nevelson replied "I "am" a woman's liberation." Don Bacigalupi, former president of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, said of Nevelson “In Nevelson’s case, she was the most ferocious artist there was. She was the most determined, the most forceful, the most difficult. She just forced her way in. And so that was one way to do it, but not all women chose to or could take that route.”