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My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
Louise Bourgeois
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Louise Bourgeois
Age: 98 †
Born: 1911
Born: January 1
Died: 2010
Died: January 1
Artist
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Installation Artist
Jewelry Designer
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Paris
France
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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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Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.
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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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I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.
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Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
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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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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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I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.
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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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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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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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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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Art is a way of recognizing oneself.
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It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.
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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 life has been regulated by insomnia.
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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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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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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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