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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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Drawer
Engraver
Illustrator
Installation Artist
Jewelry Designer
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Paris
France
Louise Goldwater
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Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.
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You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.
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Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.
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A work of art doesn't have to be explained.
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I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents.
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My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.
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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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Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.
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I dont watch TV. I dont use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.
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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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For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.
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I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.
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The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. . . Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother.
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Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
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If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.
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Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.
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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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I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.
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I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.
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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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