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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.
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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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.
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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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Art is a guarantee of sanity.
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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 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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I dont watch TV. I dont use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.
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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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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 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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Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.
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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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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 way of recognizing oneself.
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My life has been regulated by insomnia.
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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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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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It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.
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It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.
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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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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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