"Look at it this way - a totem……" — Louise Bourgeois
"Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional."
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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 Confessional Quotes
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A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have…
— John Irving
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['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that…
— James Taylor
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For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need…
— Taylor Swift
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I find it relatively easy to keep my clothes on because I don't really feel like taking them off. It's…
— Taylor Swift
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We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional.
— Big Boi
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Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."
— Robert Breault
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I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the…
— Pope Francis
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A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is…
— Nelson Algren
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We are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or…
— Gerhard
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Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.
— Mark Buchanan
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The new evangelization ... begins in the confessional.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.
— Michael Pollan
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