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Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.
Louise Bourgeois
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Louise Bourgeois
Age: 98 †
Born: 1911
Born: January 1
Died: 2010
Died: January 1
Artist
Drawer
Engraver
Illustrator
Installation Artist
Jewelry Designer
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Paris
France
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My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.
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Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.
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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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One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.
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