Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois; 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the subconscious. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the Abstract Expressionists and her work has much in common with Surrealism and Feminist art, she was...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionSculptor
Date of Birth25 December 1911
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
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.
I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.
Sometimes it is necessary to make a confrontation-and I like that.
I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.
The subject of pain is the business I am in - to give meaning and shape to frustration and suffering. The existence of pain cannot be denied. I propose no remedies or excuses.
I dont watch TV. I dont use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.
To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.
It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.
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.
Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.
Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.
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.
Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.
I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.