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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.
Louise Bourgeois
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Louise Bourgeois
Age: 98 †
Born: 1911
Born: January 1
Died: 2010
Died: January 1
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More quotes by 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.
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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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For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.
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One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.
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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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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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I dont watch TV. I dont use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.
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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.
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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.
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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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Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.
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Art is a way of recognizing oneself.
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An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
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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.
Louise Bourgeois
I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.
Louise Bourgeois
The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.
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It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.
Louise Bourgeois
Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.
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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