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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.
Louise Bourgeois
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Louise Bourgeois
Age: 98 †
Born: 1911
Born: January 1
Died: 2010
Died: January 1
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Jewelry Designer
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Sculptor
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Paris
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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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The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. . . Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother.
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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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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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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 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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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 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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I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.
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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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My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
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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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Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.
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One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.
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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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I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.
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