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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
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Paris
France
Louise Goldwater
Art
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Oneself
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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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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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A work of art doesn't have to be explained.
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I dont watch TV. I dont use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.
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Art is a guarantee of sanity.
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Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.
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It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.
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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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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 childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.
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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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One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.
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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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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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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 art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
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Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.
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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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