If you are resentful, you keep the thing alive. So the way to go on is to get rid of it, in order to forgive in order to forget.

The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.

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.

Everything I do is inspired by my early life”, Bourgeois’ looked up to her mother who was the most important person in her life for many reasons, ‘Maman’ symbolizes her mother; “The friend, because my best friend was my mother and she was deliberate, clever, patient, soothing, reasonable, dainty, subtle, indispensable, neat, and as useful as a spider.

... 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.

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

If you are resentful, you keep the thing alive. So the way to go on is to get rid of it, in order to forgive in order to forget.