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Louise Bourgeois Quotes

1911–2010 France

Louise Bourgeois (25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010) was a French-American artist and sculptor.

France
Artists
Sculptors

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Art is a guaranty of sanity.

I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing 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.

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Louise Bourgeois (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.