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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
Illustrator
Installation Artist
Jewelry Designer
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Sculptor
Visual Artist
Paris
France
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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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.
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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 dont watch TV. I dont use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.
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I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.
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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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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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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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Art is a guarantee of sanity.
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For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.
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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 am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.
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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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Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.
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Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.
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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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