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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
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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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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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I dont watch TV. I dont use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.
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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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My life has been regulated by insomnia.
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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 was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.
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A work of art doesn't have to be explained.
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I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.
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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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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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I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.
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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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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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One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.
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An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
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