"Horizontality is a desire to give up, to……" — Louise Bourgeois
"Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence."
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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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From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with…
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Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought…
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My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence:…
— Adrienne Rich
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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows…
— Paul de Man
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Man-hating is everywhere, but everywhere it is twisted and transformed, disguised, tranquilized, and qualified. It coexists, never peacefully, with the…
— Judith Levine
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History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill…
— Winston Churchill
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
— Adrienne Rich
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Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man’s land of the heights of heaven, the…
— Luce Irigaray
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Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set…
— Erma Bombeck
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Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space…
— Joan Mitchell
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It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this…
— John Scott
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More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.
— Michel de Certeau
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