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A work of art doesn't have to be explained.
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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More quotes by Louise Bourgeois
My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
Louise Bourgeois
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.
Louise Bourgeois
Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
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Art is a guarantee of sanity.
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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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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.
Louise Bourgeois
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.
Louise Bourgeois
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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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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I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.
Louise Bourgeois
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.
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Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.
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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 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 life has been regulated by insomnia.
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Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.
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For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.
Louise Bourgeois
It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.
Louise Bourgeois
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.
Louise Bourgeois
One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.
Louise Bourgeois
