Best Louise Bourgeois Quotes
- A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If… Any
- One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do. Accept
- I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained… Beings
- Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence. Ambivalence
- I like Francis Bacon best, because Francis Bacon has terrific problems, and he knows that he is not going to solve them, but he knows… Alive
- It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture. Able
- I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know… Critics
- I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing… Ability
- The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still… Bother
- What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled… Absolutely
- Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which… Art
- At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the soft bread with… Bickering
- My life has been regulated by insomnia. Been
- I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little. Accomplish
- An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing. Acceptance
- It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive. From
- To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence. Artist
- My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others. Art
- My childhood has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama. Childhood
- I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood. Blood
- Space is something that you have to define. Otherwise, it is like anxiety, which is too vague. A fear is something specific. I like claustrophobic… Anxiety
- Tell your own story, and you will be interesting. Interesting
- Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional. Confessional
- I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing… Business
- I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary. Another Kind