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Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.
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
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It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.
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Art is a guarantee of sanity.
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I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.
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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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My life has been regulated by insomnia.
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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 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 dont watch TV. I dont use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.
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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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My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
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An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
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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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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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Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.
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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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Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.
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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 way of recognizing oneself.
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One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.
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Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
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