"An artist can show things that other people……" — Louise Bourgeois
"An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing."
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Louise Bourgeois
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51 Quotes by Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois has 51 quotes on this site.
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Art is a guarantee of sanity.
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Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when…
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The colour blue - that is my colour - and the colour blue means you have left the drabness of…
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I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a…
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I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands...
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My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me,…
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Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.
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I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.
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The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a…
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Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through…
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My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.
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My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the…
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More Acceptance Quotes
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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