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An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
Louise Bourgeois
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Louise Bourgeois
Age: 98 †
Born: 1911
Born: January 1
Died: 2010
Died: January 1
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For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.
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I dont watch TV. I dont use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.
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I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.
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A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.
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It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.
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I was a runaway girl from France who married an American and moved to New York City. Im not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup.
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My life has been regulated by insomnia.
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In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.
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Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
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I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.
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The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.
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When I was growing up, all the women in my house were using needles. I've always had a fascination with the needle, the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair damage. It's a claim to forgiveness. It is never aggressive, it's not a pin.
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Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.
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My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
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It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.
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Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.
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The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.
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Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.
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One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.
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Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They are like signposts in the search for the past.
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