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Art is a way of recognizing oneself.
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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Photographer
Printmaker
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Paris
France
Louise Goldwater
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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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Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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 was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.
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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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An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
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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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My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.
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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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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.
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Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
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