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It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.
Louise Bourgeois
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Louise Bourgeois
Age: 98 †
Born: 1911
Born: January 1
Died: 2010
Died: January 1
Artist
Drawer
Engraver
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Installation Artist
Jewelry Designer
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Paris
France
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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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I was a runaway girl from France who married an American and moved to New York City. Im not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup.
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When I was growing up, all the women in my house were using needles. I've always had a fascination with the needle, the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair damage. It's a claim to forgiveness. It is never aggressive, it's not a pin.
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If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.
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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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Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.
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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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Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.
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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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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 was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.
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One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.
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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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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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For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.
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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.
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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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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 am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.
Louise Bourgeois
Art is a guarantee of sanity.
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