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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
Artist
Drawer
Engraver
Illustrator
Installation Artist
Jewelry Designer
Painter
Photographer
Printmaker
Sculptor
Visual Artist
Paris
France
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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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I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.
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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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Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.
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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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Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
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Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.
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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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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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It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.
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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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Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.
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An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
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Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.
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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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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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My life has been regulated by insomnia.
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