"I always had the fear of being separated……" — Louise Bourgeois
"I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole."
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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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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
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Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when…
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Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have…
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Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is…
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin…
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The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and…
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Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side.…
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After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The…
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Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned…
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Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours.…
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Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we…
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