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Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.
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
Louise Goldwater
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I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.
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An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
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My life has been regulated by insomnia.
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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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A work of art doesn't have to be explained.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.
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Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.
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I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.
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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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If you are resentful, you keep the thing alive. So the way to go on is to get rid of it, in order to forgive in order to forget.
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