Louise Bourgeois Quotes

Louise Bourgeois — French Artist born on December 25, 1911, died on May 31, 2010

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois 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 unconscious. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the Abstract Expressionists and her work has much in common with Surrealism and Feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement... (wikipedia)

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America.

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

Even though what I do does enter the market, it doesn't interest me. I am exclusively concerned with the formal qualities of my work. It is about the need and the right to self-expression.

Louise Bourgeois Quotes

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