It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
I was a runaway girl from France who married an American and moved to New York City. Im not sure I would… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion.… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented -… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
I know that when I finish a drawing, my anxiety level decreases. The realistic drawings are a way of pinning down an… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm.… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
My work has to do with a defense against fervor. People are always in a rush. To do what? To do nothing!… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
A work of art does not need an explanation. The work has to speak for itself. The work may be subject to… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share
The colour blue - that is my colour - and the colour blue means you have left the drabness of day-to-day reality to be… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share
Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself,… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share
It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share
Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share
Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share
Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share
What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share
