Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed. They are not fully aware of the effect my work has on… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it… — 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
