Bourgeois Quote by Louise Bourgeois

“My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.”

Louise Bourgeois

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Artists have to be useful. They have to fill a role.

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I am a searcher... I always was... and I still am... searching for the missing piece.

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My life has been regulated by insomnia.

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The colour blue - that is my colour - and the colour blue means you have left the drabness of day-to-day reality to be transported into - not a world of fantasy, it’s not a world of fantasy - but a world of freedom where you can say what you like and what you don’t like. This has been expressed…

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Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.

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Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself,…

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It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.

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Art is manipulation without intervention.

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Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy.

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I am a lonely runner, but I am a long-distance runner.

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I work like a bee and feel that I accomplish little.

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“there are many realities”

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Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

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