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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.
Louise Bourgeois
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Louise Bourgeois
Age: 98 †
Born: 1911
Born: January 1
Died: 2010
Died: January 1
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I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.
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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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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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Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
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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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I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.
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Art is a guarantee of sanity.
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My life has been regulated by insomnia.
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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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Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.
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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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Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.
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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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An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
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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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