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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.
Louise Bourgeois
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Louise Bourgeois
Age: 98 †
Born: 1911
Born: January 1
Died: 2010
Died: January 1
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Paris
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Louise Goldwater
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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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It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.
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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 found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.
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I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.
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A work of art doesn't have to be explained.
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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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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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Art is a guarantee of sanity.
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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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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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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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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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My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other.
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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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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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My life has been regulated by insomnia.
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It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.
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I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.
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