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My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed. They are not fully aware of the effect my work has on them, but they know it is disturbing.
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
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Printmaker
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Paris
France
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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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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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Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.
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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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My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.
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It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.
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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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Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
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I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.
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