It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.
Louise BourgeoisMy 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 BourgeoisYou must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.
Louise BourgeoisMy mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other.
Louise BourgeoisEverything I do is inspired by my early lifeโ, Bourgeoisโ looked up to her mother who was the most important person in her life for many reasons, โMamanโ symbolizes her mother; โThe 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.
Louise Bourgeois