Louise Bourgeois Quotes

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To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.
Louise Bourgeois
It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.
Louise Bourgeois
The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn’t get mad. She weaves and repairs it.
Louise Bourgeois
An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
Louise Bourgeois (Destruction of the Father/Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923–1997)
I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands...
Louise Bourgeois
And what’s the use of talking, if you already know that others don’t feel what you feel?
Louise Bourgeois
You learn for yourself not for others, not to show off, not to put the other one down/ learning is your secret, it is all you have, it is the only thing you can call your own. nobody can take it away…
Louise Bourgeois (Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed: Psychoanalytic Writings)
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 forever by the colour blue, which is really sky blue.
Louise Bourgeois (Louise Bourgeois: Drawings and Observations)
My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you don’t love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.
Louise Bourgeois
there are many realities
Louise Bourgeois
You pile up associations the way you pile up bricks. Memory itself is a form of architecture.
Louise Bourgeois (Louise Bourgeois: Memoria y Arquitectura: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 16 de Noviembre de 1999-14 de Febrero del 2)
Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it, and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.
Louise Bourgeois
You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love.
Louise Bourgeois
My inspiration comes from the beauty of the past. That's where I am completely omnipotent. -Louise Bourgeois
Jan Greenberg (Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois)
When Louise worried bout something, it often turned up in her art.
Jan Greenberg (Runaway Girl: The Artist 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
Jan Greenberg (Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois)
(How do you know a piece is finished?:) It's never finished. The subject is never exhausted. -Louise Bourgeois
Jan Greenberg (Runaway Girl: The Artist 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.
Jan Greenberg (Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois)
You pile up associations the way you pile up bricks. Memory itself is a form of architecture.
Louise Bourgeois
He was the wolf, and she was the rational hare, forgiving and accepting him as he was.
Louise Bourgeois
Art is a way of recognizing oneself.
Louise Bourgeois
You learn for yourself not for others, not to show off, not to put the other one down/ learning is your secret, it is all you have, it is the only thing you can call your own. nobody can take it away… ― , Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed/Psychoanalytic Writings
Louise Bourgeois
But I quickly came to see, she said, that in fact there was nothing worse than to be an average white male of average talents and intelligence: even the most oppressed housewife, she said, is closer to the drama and poetry of life than he is, because as Louise Bourgeois shows us she is capable at least of holding more than one perspective.
Rachel Cusk (Kudos)
Her intimate, edgy sculpture was grounded in female experience, including relationships, giving birth and motherhood.
Jan Greenberg (Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois)
You pile up associations the way you pile up bricks. Memory itself is a form of architecture. —Louise Bourgeois
Carmen Maria Machado (In the Dream House)
You pile up associations the way you pile up bricks. Memory itself is a form of architecture. —Louise Bourgeois
Carmen Maria Machado (In the Dream House)
Memory itself is a kind of architecture. —Louise Bourgeois
Maggie Smith (You Could Make This Place Beautiful)
She wanted children and considered having them a "privilege," but art also "was a privilege given to me and I had to pursue it.
Jan Greenberg (Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois)
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.
Jan Greenberg (Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois)
I've been to hell and back. And let me tell you, it was wonderful.
Louise Bourgeois
banquet oifert à un député par ses électeurs reconnaissants. La cheminée est ornée d’une pendule d’un goût atrocement troubadour, représentant le templier Bois-Guilbert enlevant une Rébecca dorée sur un cheval argenté. A droite et à gauche de cette odieuse horloge sont placés deux flambeaux de plaqué sous un globe. Ces magnificences sont l’objet de la secrète envie de plus d’une ménagère de Pont-de-Arche, et la servante elle-même ne les essuie qu’en tremblant. Je ne parle pas de quelques caniches en verre filé, d’un petit saint Jean en pâte de sucre, d’un Napoléon en chocolat, d’un cabaret chargé de porcelaines communes et pompeusement installé sur une table ronde, de gravures représentant les Adieux de Fontainebleau, Souvenirs et regrets, la Famille du marin, les Petits Braconniers et autres vulgarités du même genre. — Concevez-vous rien de pareil ? Je n’ai jamais su comprendre, pour ma part, cet amour du commun et du laid. Je conçois que tout le monde n’ait pas pour logement des Alhambras, des Louvres ou des Parthénons ; mais il est toujours si facile de ne pas avoir de pendule ! de laisser les murailles nues, et de se priver de lithographies de Maurin ou d’aquatintes de Jazet ! Les gens qui remplissaient ce salon me semblaient, à force de vulgarité, les plus étranges du monde ; ils avaient des façons de parler incroyables, et s’exprimaient en style fleuri, comme feu Prudhomme, élève de Brard et Saint-Omer. Leurs têtes, épanouies sur leurs cravates blanches, et leurs cols de chemise gigantesques faisaient penser à certains produits de la famille des cucurbitacés. Quelques hommes ressemblent à des animaux, au lion, au cheval, à l’âne ; ceux-ci, tout bien considéré, avaient l’air encore plus végétal que bestial. Des femmes, je n’en dirai rien, m’étant promis de ne jamais tourner en ridicule ce sexe charmant. Au milieu de ces légumes humains, Louise faisait l’effet d’une rose dans un carré de choux. Elle portait une simple robe blanche serrée à la taille par un ruban bleu ; ses cheveux, séparés en bandeaux, encadraient harmonieusement son front pur. Une grosse natte se tordait derrière sa nuque, couverte de cheveux follets et d’un duvet de pêche. Une quakeresse n’aurait rien trouvé à redire à cette mise, qui faisait paraître d’un grotesque et d’un ridicule achevés les harnais et les plumets de corbillard. des autres femmes ; il était impossible d’être de meilleur goût. J’avais peur que mon infante ne profitât de la circonstance pour déployer quelque toilette excessive et prétentieuse, achetée d’occasion. Cette pauvre robe de mousseline qui n’a jamais vu l’Inde, et qu’elle a probablement faite elle-même, m’a touché et séduit ; je ne tiens pas à la parure. J’ai eu pour maîtresse une gitana grenadine qui n’avait pour tout vêtement que des pantoufles bleues et un collier de grains d’ambre ; mais rien ne me contrarie comme un fourreau mal taillé et d’une couleur hostile. Les dandies bourgeois préférant de
Théophile Gautier (La Croix de Berny: Roman steeple-chase (French Edition))
Asked if she was a feminist, Louise said she wasn't sure, but she was a woman--her art couldn't help reflecting that.
Jan Greenberg (Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois)
You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love. That is why geometrically speaking the circle is a one. Everything comes to you from the other. You have to be able to reach the other. If not you are alone…
Louise Bourgeois (Destruction of the Father/Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923–1997)
Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented—which is what fear and anxiety do to a person—into something whole.” —louise bourgeois
Hannah Gadsby (Ten Steps to Nanette)
De notities van Louise Bourgeois tonen hoe ze haar angsten en genot probeerde te verwoorden en vorm te geven in de praktijk van haar kunst. Ik twijfel er geen ogenblik aan dat ze daarmee haar leven leefbaarder gemaakt heeft. Vermoedelijk wist Louise niet dat zij met deze constante observatie van haarzelf, haar lichaam en haar verhouding met anderen aan zelfzorg deed.
Paul Verhaeghe (Intimiteit)