Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.
Louise BourgeoisIt is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.
Louise BourgeoisEveryone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.
Louise BourgeoisWomen 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