Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that. Louise Bourgeois More Quotes by Louise Bourgeois More Quotes From Louise Bourgeois Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work. Louise Bourgeois envy green disease 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 tongue knives hate I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total. Louise Bourgeois learning discovery science My work disturbs people and nobody wants to be disturbed. They are not fully aware of the effect my work has on them, but they know it is disturbing. Louise Bourgeois disturbed want people Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear away by studying the sky, determining when the moon would come out and where the sun would appear in the morning. Louise Bourgeois moon sky morning My work has to do with a defense against fervor. People are always in a rush. To do what? To do nothing! There is a kind of fervor that is completely meaningless. This drawing is a call for meditation.... I am an insomniac, so for me the state of being asleep is paradise. It is a paradise I can never reach. But I still try to conquer the insomnia, and to a large extent I have done it; it is conquerable. My drawings are a kind of rocking or stroking and an attempt at finding peace. Peaceful rhythm. Like rocking a baby to sleep. Louise Bourgeois insomnia sleep baby It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture. Louise Bourgeois sculpture able feelings Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing. Louise Bourgeois should-have beautiful commitment Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them. Louise Bourgeois born artist made I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents. Louise Bourgeois drawing girl parent Art is a guarantee of sanity. Louise Bourgeois sanity guarantees art My life has been regulated by insomnia. Louise Bourgeois has-beens insomnia sleep What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach. This is a painful situation, and modern art is about this painful situation of having no absolutely definite way of expressing yourself. Louise Bourgeois mean way art The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects. Louise Bourgeois mosquitoes spiders animal Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy. Louise Bourgeois anathema tragedy made I like Francis Bacon best, because Francis Bacon has terrific problems, and he knows that he is not going to solve them, but he knows also that he can escape from day to day and stay alive, and he does that because his work gives him a kick. Louise Bourgeois alive doe giving It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege. Louise Bourgeois torment privilege artist I dont watch TV. I dont use a computer, a fax or a cellphone. Louise Bourgeois fax use watches For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture. Louise Bourgeois sculpture body To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if Im inspired by the results. Louise Bourgeois inspired emotion artist
