Louise Bourgeois Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Memorable, Acceptance

• Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Ideas, Anxiety

• Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have
  said.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Important, Guarantees

• A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Feelings, Works Of Art

• Art is a guarantee of sanity.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Guarantees, Sanity

  Louise Bourgeois, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (1999). “Louise Bourgeois: memoria y arquitectura : Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 16 de noviembre de 1999-14 de febrero del 2000”, Actar-D

• A work of art doesn't have to be explained.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Works Of Art

• Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Needs, World

  Louise Bourgeois, Donald Burton Kuspit (1988). “Bourgeois”, Vintage

• Art is manipulation without intervention.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Manipulation, Art Is

• A work of art does not need an explanation. The work has to speak for itself. The work may be subject to many interpretations, but only one was in the mind of the artist. Some artists say to make the work readable for the public is an artist’s responsibility, but I don’t agree with that. The only responsibility to be absolutely truthful to the self. 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

  Art, Responsibility, Self

• In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Past, Ideas

  Louise Bourgeois (1998). “Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997”

• 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

  Art, Mean, Way

  Louise Bourgeois, Donald Burton Kuspit (1988). “Bourgeois”, Vintage

• Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They are like signposts in the search for the past.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Memories, Exercise

  Jerry Gorovoy, Louise Bourgeois, Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi, Paulo Herkenhoff, Fondazione Prada (Milan, Italy) (1997). “Louise Bourgeois: blue days and pink days”

• Art is a way of recognizing oneself.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Way, Recognizing

  Louise Bourgeois, Donald Burton Kuspit (1988). “Bourgeois”, Vintage

• Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm. And it hurt them. To be young and pretty didn't help a woman in the art world, because the social scene, and the buying scene, was in the hands of women - women who had money. They wanted male artists who would come alone and be their charming guests. Rothko could be very charming. It was a court. And the artist buffoons came to the court to entertain, to charm. Now it has changed, now the younger men are in - older women and younger men.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Hurt, Men

  "Bourgeois". Book by Louise Bourgeois and ‎Donald Burton Kuspit (p. 76), 1988.

• My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Feelings, Restoration

  "My art is a form of restoration". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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