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I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.
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
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Searching
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A work of art doesn't have to be explained.
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Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.
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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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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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One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.
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Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They are like signposts in the search for the past.
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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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Art is a way of recognizing oneself.
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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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It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.
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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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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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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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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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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
My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
Louise Bourgeois
Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.
Louise Bourgeois
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 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.
Louise Bourgeois
