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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
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Paris
France
Louise Goldwater
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Insomnia
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Life
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Art is a guarantee of sanity.
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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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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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It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.
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I dont watch TV. I dont use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.
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Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.
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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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A work of art doesn't have to be explained.
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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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It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.
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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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In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.
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Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.
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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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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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I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.
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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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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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