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I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.
— Louise Bourgeois
Most of Hitler's henchmen were not demons. They were overly obedient petty bourgeois who had mutated into murderers.
— Rudolph Herzog
The same bourgeois magic everywhere the mail train sets you down.
— Arthur Rimbaud
Privacy is a bourgeois fantasy.
— Johannes Grenzfurthner
The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.
— Vladimir Lenin
Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.
— Gustave Flaubert
If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don't say: 'one shouldn't do that' - that is bourgeois.
— Karl Lagerfeld
Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.
— Louise Bourgeois
If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
— Uta Hagen
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
— Gustave Flaubert
I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.
— Louise Bourgeois
All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream!
— Leon Bourgeois
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
— Cesare Pavese
Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.
— Louise Bourgeois
You can't counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only with a more compelling heroic vision.
— David Brooks
Where the bourgeois economists saw a relation between things (the exchange of one commodity for another) Marx revealed a relation between people.
— Vladimir Lenin
A neat little apartment with a neat little bourgeois life. A neat little security on the edge of the abyss. Do you really see that?
— Erich Maria Remarque
We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule ... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.
— Helle Thorning-Schmidt
The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.
— Hermann Hesse
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.
— George Bernard Shaw
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.
— Louis Kronenberger
Don't let your dreams stay hidden inside of your mind, free them.
— Taneeka Bourgeois-daSilva
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
— Christian Lacroix
Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.
— Rosa Luxemburg
One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
— Gustave Flaubert
One must accept the fact that others don't see what you do.
— Louise Bourgeois
Woe to him who doesn't know this Christian faith is bourgeois.
— Pier Paolo Pasolini
The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.
— Theodor Adorno
An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
— Louise Bourgeois
I don't watch TV. I don't use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.
— Louise Bourgeois
When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America.
— Louise Bourgeois
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
— Ernest Mandel
Commerce they say, encourages the bourgeois virtues of thrift, hard work,self -reliance,and self discipline.
— Gurcharan Das
Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.
— Louise Bourgeois
Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.
— Louise Bourgeois
Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice.
— Vladimir Lenin
Workers in the bourgeois countries must fight for equal rights for men and women.
— Nadezhda Krupskaya
There's only one thing that warms my heart, and that is the thought that we are going to sweep away these bourgeois.
— Emile Zola
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
I live a bourgeois life.
— Mark Ruffalo
In the '60s, I thought golf was bourgeois, so I didn't play at all for 20 years.
— Jerry Jeff Walker
I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.
— Charles De Gaulle
Il faut e pater le bourgeois. One must astound the bourgeois.
— Charles Baudelaire
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
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
Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!
— Carl Andre
During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.
— Donatella Versace
The publication of the third volume of Capital has made hardly any impression upon bourgeois economic science.
— Rudolf Hilferding
You've done the bourgeois thing, perhaps, but let's not call that love.
— Marianne Williamson
But lately I'm like a beatnik in a movie. Fuck this bourgeois shit, baby! Let's be pure of heart again!
— Jenny Offill
Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.
— Marina Abramovic
I'd never pondered the bourgeois implications of an earplug.
— Jonathan Lethem
Art is a way of recognizing oneself ...
— Louise Bourgeois
I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.
— Alexandra Cassavetes
For what is the program of the bourgeois parties? A bad poem on springtime, filled to bursting with metaphors.
— Walter Benjamin
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
The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented.
— J.G. Ballard
The work of art is a pyramid which stands in the desert, uselessly: jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it;
— Julian Barnes
Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
— Louise Bourgeois
In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them.
— Jane Hamilton
In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.
— Joe Bob Briggs
It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.
— Louise Bourgeois
I get along with everyone except for men my age, who are bourgeois or retired or boring.
— Karl Lagerfeld
Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.
— Gustave Flaubert
How beastly the bourgeois is
especially the male of the species — D.H. Lawrence
especially the male of the species — D.H. Lawrence
To demand the art forms of yesterday in either word systems or art is a bourgeois failure.
— Francis A. Schaeffer
Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.
— Le Corbusier
One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.
— Paulo Freire
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
Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.
— Louise Bourgeois
Art is a guarantee of sanity.
— Louise Bourgeois
I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.
— Etta James
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
Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.
— Louise Bourgeois
Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.
— Andre Balazs
The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois ...
— Susan Sontag
For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.
— Rudolf Hilferding
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
To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.
— Jules Renard
Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.
— Neil Kinnock
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
— Douglas Sirk
For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.
— Louise Bourgeois
To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.
— Louise Bourgeois
Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
And what's the use of talking, if you already know that others don't feel what you feel?
— Louise Bourgeois
The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?
— Mario Vargas-Llosa
I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little.
— Louise Bourgeois