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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
Louise Goldwater
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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 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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For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.
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Art is a way of recognizing oneself.
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Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.
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My life has been regulated by insomnia.
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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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A work of art doesn't have to be explained.
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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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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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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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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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It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.
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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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Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.
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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.
Louise Bourgeois
I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.
Louise Bourgeois
Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.
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