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Louise Bourgeois quotes: I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

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

Louise Bourgeois quotes: My childhood has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.

My childhood has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have
said.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: there are many realities

there are many realities

Louise Bourgeois quotes: Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.

I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: Art is manipulation without intervention.

Art is manipulation without intervention.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.

Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: I don't watch TV. I don't use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.

I don't watch TV. I don't use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: 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.

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.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: One must accept the fact that others don't see what you do.

One must accept the fact that others don't see what you do.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.

The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.

I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America.

When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.

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

Louise Bourgeois quotes: It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.

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

Louise Bourgeois quotes: I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands...

I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands...

Louise Bourgeois quotes: I am a searcher ... I always was ... and I still am ... searching for the missing piece.

I am a searcher ...
I always was ... and I still am ...
searching for the missing piece.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: Art is a guarantee of sanity.

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.

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

Louise Bourgeois quotes: Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.

Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: 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.

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.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.

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

Louise Bourgeois quotes: To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: And what's the use of talking, if you already know that others don't feel what you feel?

And what's the use of talking, if you already know that others don't feel what you feel?

Louise Bourgeois quotes: I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little.

I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: Art is a way of recognizing oneself ...

Art is a way of recognizing oneself ...

Louise Bourgeois quotes: My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don't love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.

My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don't love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.

It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: 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.

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.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

Louise Bourgeois quotes: Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.

Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.