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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
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Paris
France
Louise Goldwater
Torment
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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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Art is a guarantee of sanity.
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One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.
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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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It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.
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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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For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.
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Art is a way of recognizing oneself.
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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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My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
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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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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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Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
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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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Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.
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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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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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I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.
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My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other.
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