"The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself."
"An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing."
"Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have
said."
“Art is manipulation without intervention.”
I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.”
“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.”
"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."
"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."
What a life she had! Louise Bourgeois art is beautiful, clever, sensitive, provoking and ... it makes you think.
