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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.
Louise Bourgeois
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Louise Bourgeois
Age: 98 †
Born: 1911
Born: January 1
Died: 2010
Died: January 1
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Installation Artist
Jewelry Designer
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Paris
France
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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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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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Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
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For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.
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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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A work of art doesn't have to be explained.
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Art is a way of recognizing oneself.
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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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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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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 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 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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Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.
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I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.
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I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.
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My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed. They are not fully aware of the effect my work has on them, but they know it is disturbing.
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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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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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My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
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