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I am a searcher... I always ...

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

Louise Bourgeois 60 quotes

When I was growing up, all th...

When I was growing up, all the women in my house were using needles. I've always had a fascination with the needle, the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair damage. It's a claim to forgiveness. It is never aggressive, it's not a pin.

Louise Bourgeois 60 quotes

Art is a guarantee of sanity....

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

Louise Bourgeois 60 quotes

I have drawn my whole life. M...

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 60 quotes

I do not need the musing of t...

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 60 quotes

The feminists took me as a ro...

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 60 quotes

My work has to do with a defe...

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.

Louise Bourgeois 60 quotes

My work disturbs people and n...

My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed. They are not fully aware of the effect my work has on them, but they know it is disturbing.

Louise Bourgeois 60 quotes

If you are resentful, you kee...

If you are resentful, you keep the thing alive. So the way to go on is to get rid of it, in order to forgive in order to forget.

Louise Bourgeois 60 quotes

Women had to work like slaves...

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 60 quotes

I am a lonely runner, but I a...

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

Louise Bourgeois 60 quotes

A work of art doesn't have to...

A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.

Louise Bourgeois 60 quotes

Everywhere in the modern worl...

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 60 quotes

I don't watch TV. I don't use...

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

Louise Bourgeois 60 quotes

I was raised a Catholic. But ...

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

Louise Bourgeois 60 quotes

I know that when I finish a d...

I know that when I finish a drawing, my anxiety level decreases. The realistic drawings are a way of pinning down an idea. I don't want to loose it. With the abstract drawings, when I'm feeling loose, I can slip into the unconscious.

Louise Bourgeois 60 quotes

I have kept a diary as long a...

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

Louise Bourgeois 60 quotes

To express your emotions, you...

To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if I'm inspired by the results.

Louise Bourgeois 60 quotes

When my mother died, I fell a...

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

Louise Bourgeois 60 quotes

Even though what I do does en...

Even though what I do does enter the market, it doesn't interest me. I am exclusively concerned with the formal qualities of my work. It is about the need and the right to self-expression.

Louise Bourgeois 60 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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