My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line.… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. .… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Everything I do is inspired by my early life”, Bourgeois’ looked up to her mother who was the most important person in… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother.… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw… — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
