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My life has been regulated by insomnia.
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
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Photographer
Printmaker
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Paris
France
Louise Goldwater
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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 a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.
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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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Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.
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For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.
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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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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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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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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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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 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 am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.
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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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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
An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
Louise Bourgeois
Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.
Louise Bourgeois
A work of art doesn't have to be explained.
Louise Bourgeois
Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.
Louise Bourgeois
It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.
Louise Bourgeois
One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.
Louise Bourgeois
