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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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I dont watch TV. I dont use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.
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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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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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Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.
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I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.
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For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.
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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 art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
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Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.
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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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A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.
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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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It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.
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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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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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