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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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Art is a guarantee of sanity.
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An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
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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 childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.
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My life has been regulated by insomnia.
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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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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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Art is a way of recognizing oneself.
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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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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 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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For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.
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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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One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.
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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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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 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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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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