Motivation Quotes by Louise Bourgeois

Artists have to be useful. They have to fill a role.

— Louise Bourgeois

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

— Louise Bourgeois

My life has been regulated by insomnia.

— Louise Bourgeois

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

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

— Louise Bourgeois

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

It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.

— Louise Bourgeois

Art is manipulation without intervention.

— Louise Bourgeois

Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.

— Louise Bourgeois

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

— Louise Bourgeois

I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little.

— Louise Bourgeois

“there are many realities”

— Louise Bourgeois