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Louise Bourgeois Quotes: I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.
         

I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.


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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.

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.



Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.



One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.

One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.



In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.



A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.

A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.



I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.

I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful.



I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.

I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.



Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.



An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.



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

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





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