My knives are like a tongue - I love, I do not love, I hate. If you donโt love me, I am ready to attack. I am a double-edged knife.
Louise BourgeoisI found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.
Louise BourgeoisA 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 BourgeoisI have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.
Louise Bourgeois... geometry became a symbol for human relations, except that it was better, because in geometry things never go bad. If certain things occur, if certain lines meet, an angle is born. You cannot fail. It's not going to fail; it is eternal. I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total. Thus, I'm able to avoid or manipulate or process pain.
Louise Bourgeois