Greenberg Artist Quotes

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

When Louise worried bout something, it often turned up in her art.

My inspiration comes from the beauty of the past. That's where I am completely omnipotent. -Louise Bourgeois

Instead of tall and angular shapes regarded as masculine and aggressive, she now turned to soft, rounded forms identified as female or nurturing.

(How do you know a piece is finished?:) It's never finished. The subject is never exhausted. -Louise Bourgeois

It was just that i had the feeling that the art scene belonged to the men, and that I was in some way invading their domain. Therefore the work was hidden away." -Louise Bourgeois

Her intimate, edgy sculpture was grounded in female experience, including relationships, giving birth and motherhood.

She wanted children and considered having them a "privilege," but art also "was a privilege given to me and I had to pursue it.

She doesn't attend gallery openings or apear at art-world parties. "People need to see the work. It's more me than my physical presence.

If he believed he was doing the right thing, other people’s opinions didn’t matter.

but he instinctively feels, I am good for something, my life has a purpose after all… How could I be useful, of what service can I be?

1 always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. Love a friend, a wife, something—whatever you like—you will be on your way to knowing more about Him.

Asked if she was a feminist, Louise said she wasn't sure, but she was a woman--her art couldn't help reflecting that.

Artists do the opposite, every day. We tear down our own walls to dig into the center of our glittery souls and fashion something that’s uniquely ours—something that no one else can create. We present a slice of our humanity to the world, and nine times out of ten, the world tells us it isn’t for them.

review some fundamentals: 1. We must continue doing our best to control expenses. Every dollar we save on expenses goes directly to the bottom line. That is what all of us should be concerned about, or you are at the wrong firm. Expenses should be watched at all times, but especially when business is good. 2. We must continue to be alert for scams and con artists. We must watch for unusual behavior by the people we work with. What is unusual behavior? Something subtle like somebody who drives a Rolls-Royce on a salary that can barely support roller skates. 3. Do the people you work with answer phone calls in a courteous manner? Are all phone calls returned? I couldn’t care less what a person does in his own home, but I am a nut about returning phone calls that are made to our personnel during the workday. I do not care if the caller is selling malaria. Calls must be returned! 4. Are the receptionists and telephone operators in all of our offices warm and courteous, and if they are, are they thanked appropriately? Remember that in most cases the first contact a client has with us is through a telephone operator or receptionist. 5. Do you and your associates leave word where you are at all times so that finding you is not like hunting for the Andrea Doria? 6.

The more I am spent, ill, a broken pitcher, the more I become an artist, creator, in this revival of the arts.