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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

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

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

there are many realities — Louise Bourgeois

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

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

Art is manipulation without intervention. — Louise Bourgeois

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art is a guarantee of sanity. — Louise Bourgeois

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

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

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

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

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

Art is a way of recognizing oneself ... — Louise Bourgeois

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

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

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

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

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

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