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Quotes by Louise Bourgeois - (22 quotes)

Louise Bourgeois - From the Anticipation category:

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. (Louise Bourgeois)

Louise Bourgeois - From the Art category:

Art is manipulation without intervention. (Louise Bourgeois)

Louise Bourgeois - From the Art category:

Art is a guaranty of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said. (Louise Bourgeois)

Louise Bourgeois - From the Artists category:

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

Louise Bourgeois - From the Colour category:

The colour blue - that is my colour - and the colour blue means you have left the drabness of day-to-day reality to be transported into - not a world of fantasy, it's not a world of fantasy - but a world of freedom where you can say what you like and what you don't like. This has been expressed forever by the colour blue, which is really sky blue. (Louise Bourgeois)

Louise Bourgeois - From the Complaining category:

I came from a family of repairers. 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)

Louise Bourgeois - From the Critics category:

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)

Louise Bourgeois - From the Drawing category:

I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents. (Louise Bourgeois)

Louise Bourgeois - From the Ego category:

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

Louise Bourgeois - From the Gender category:

The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself. (Louise Bourgeois)

Louise Bourgeois - From the Life category:

I have been to Hell and back and let me tell you it was wonderful. (Louise Bourgeois)

Louise Bourgeois - From the Modernism category:

What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach. This is a painful situation, and modern art is about this painful situation of having no absolutely definite way of expressing yourself. (Louise Bourgeois)

Louise Bourgeois - From the Motivation category:

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

Louise Bourgeois - From the Peace category:

The grid is very peaceful. Nothing can go wrong. Everything is complete. (Louise Bourgeois)

Louise Bourgeois - From the Recognition category:

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)

Louise Bourgeois - From the Sculpture category:

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

Louise Bourgeois - From the Sculpture category:

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 - sometimes it was still warm - I would make little figures. And I would line them up on the table and this was really my first sculpture. (Louise Bourgeois)

Louise Bourgeois - From the Silence category:

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

Louise Bourgeois - From the Silence category:

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

Louise Bourgeois - From the Sleep category:

My life has been regulated by insomnia. (Louise Bourgeois)

Louise Bourgeois - From the Subject category:

Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation – and I like that. (Louise Bourgeois)

Louise Bourgeois - From the Work category:

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