Louise Bourgeois Quotes - Page 2

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• Everything I do is inspired by my early life”, Bourgeois’ looked up to her mother who was the most important person in her life for many reasons, ‘Maman’ symbolizes her mother; “The friend, because my best friend was my mother and she was deliberate, clever, patient, soothing, reasonable, dainty, subtle, indispensable, neat, and as useful as a spider.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Mother, Clever, Important

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• Art is manipulation without intervention.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Manipulation, Art Is

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• A work of art doesn't have to be explained.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Works Of Art

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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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  Drama, Childhood, Magic

  Louise Bourgeois (1998). “Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997”

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• I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

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  Drawing, Long, Diaries

  "Artist Louise Bourgeois reveals her thoughts on drawing". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2009.

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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.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Mother, Broken, Lines

  Jerry Gorovoy, Louise Bourgeois, Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi, Paulo Herkenhoff, Fondazione Prada (Milan, Italy) (1997). “Louise Bourgeois: blue days and pink days”

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• Art is a guarantee of sanity.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Guarantees, Sanity

  Louise Bourgeois, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (1999). “Louise Bourgeois: memoria y arquitectura : Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 16 de noviembre de 1999-14 de febrero del 2000”, Actar-D

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• It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.

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  Artist, Privilege, Torment

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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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  Looks, Way, Painful

  Source: www.procuniarworkshop.com

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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.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Needs, World

  Louise Bourgeois, Donald Burton Kuspit (1988). “Bourgeois”, Vintage

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• For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.

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  Sculpture, Body

  Jerry Gorovoy, Louise Bourgeois, Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi, Paulo Herkenhoff, Fondazione Prada (Milan, Italy) (1997). “Louise Bourgeois: blue days and pink days”

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• It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.

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  Inspirational, Motivation, Manage

  Roni Horn, Louise Bourgeois, Anne Carson, Hélène Cixous, John Waters (2004). “Wonderwater (Alice Offshore)”, Steidl Verlag

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• Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.

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  Artist, Born, Made

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• Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm. And it hurt them. To be young and pretty didn't help a woman in the art world, because the social scene, and the buying scene, was in the hands of women - women who had money. They wanted male artists who would come alone and be their charming guests. Rothko could be very charming. It was a court. And the artist buffoons came to the court to entertain, to charm. Now it has changed, now the younger men are in - older women and younger men.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Hurt, Men

  "Bourgeois". Book by Louise Bourgeois and ‎Donald Burton Kuspit (p. 76), 1988.

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• My life has been regulated by insomnia.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Sleep, Insomnia, Has Beens

  Louise Bourgeois (1998). “Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997”

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• The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with the symbols you are still private, you are still lonely, because you are not sure anyone will understand it except yourself. The ransom of privacy is that you are alone.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Artist

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• Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear away by studying the sky, determining when the moon would come out and where the sun would appear in the morning.

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  Morning, Moon, Sky

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• Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

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  Envy, Disease, Green

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• ... geometry became a symbol for human relations, except that it was better, because in geometry things never go bad. If certain things occur, if certain lines meet, an angle is born. You cannot fail. It's not going to fail; it is eternal. 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. Thus, I'm able to avoid or manipulate or process pain.

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  Pain, Lines, Able

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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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  Essence, Choices, Arbitrary

  Louise Bourgeois (1998). “Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997”

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• I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it.

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  Interesting, Would Be, Needs

  "Louise Bourgeois: a web of emotions" by Adrian Searle, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2010.

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• At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the soft bread with my fingers. With the dough of the French bread %u2013 sometimes it was still warm %u2013 I would make little figures. And I would line them up on the table and this was really my first sculpture.

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  People, Sculpture, Lines

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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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  Feelings, Sculpture, Able

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• My work has to do with a defense against fervor. People are always in a rush. To do what? To do nothing! There is a kind of fervor that is completely meaningless. This drawing is a call for meditation.... I am an insomniac, so for me the state of being asleep is paradise. It is a paradise I can never reach. But I still try to conquer the insomnia, and to a large extent I have done it; it is conquerable. My drawings are a kind of rocking or stroking and an attempt at finding peace. Peaceful rhythm. Like rocking a baby to sleep.

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  Baby, Sleep, Insomnia

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• I am a lonely runner, but I am a long-distance runner.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Lonely, Distance, Long

  Source: www.procuniarworkshop.com

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