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Louise Bourgeois

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.

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Louise Bourgeois

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.

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Louise Bourgeois

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.

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Louise Bourgeois

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.

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Louise Bourgeois

Art is a guarantee of sanity....

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

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Louise Bourgeois

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.

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Louise Bourgeois

Clothing is . . . an exercise...

Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They are like signposts in the search for the past.

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Louise Bourgeois

I found in rules of mathemati...

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.

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Louise Bourgeois

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 Im inspired by the results.

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Louise Bourgeois

I came from a family of repai...

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.

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Louise Bourgeois

Art is restoration: the idea ...

Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.

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Louise Bourgeois

Everyone should have the righ...

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

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Louise Bourgeois

Artists are born not made. Th...

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

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Louise Bourgeois

At the dinner table when I wa...

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 %u2013 sometimes it was still warm %u2013 I would make little figures. And I would line them up on the table and this was really my first sculpture.

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Louise Bourgeois

You must put the essence of w...

You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.

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Louise Bourgeois

Sometimes it is necessary to ...

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

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Louise Bourgeois

The subject of pain is the bu...

The subject of pain is the business I am in - to give meaning and shape to frustration and suffering. The existence of pain cannot be denied. I propose no remedies or excuses.

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Louise Bourgeois

The Spider is an ode to my mo...

The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. . . Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother.

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Louise Bourgeois

A work of art does not need a...

A work of art does not need an explanation. The work has to speak for itself. The work may be subject to many interpretations, but only one was in the mind of the artist. Some artists say to make the work readable for the public is an artist’s responsibility, but I don’t agree with that. The only responsibility to be absolutely truthful to the self. 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.

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Louise Bourgeois

Everything I do is inspired b...

Everything I do is inspired by my early life”, Bourgeois’ looked up to her mother who was the most important person in her life for many reasons, ‘Maman’ symbolizes her mother; “The friend, because my best friend was my mother and she was deliberate, clever, patient, soothing, reasonable, dainty, subtle, indispensable, neat, and as useful as a spider.

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