At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
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
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
Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor. — 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
