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
Space is something that you have to define. Otherwise, it is like anxiety, which is too vague. A fear is something specific.… — 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
Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear away by studying the sky, determining when the moon would come… — 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
I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
