Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.
Louise BourgeoisIf you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.
Louise BourgeoisEveryone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.
Louise BourgeoisMy work has to do with a defense against fervor. People are always in a rush. To do what? To do nothing! There is a kind of fervor that is completely meaningless. This drawing is a call for meditation.... I am an insomniac, so for me the state of being asleep is paradise. It is a paradise I can never reach. But I still try to conquer the insomnia, and to a large extent I have done it; it is conquerable. My drawings are a kind of rocking or stroking and an attempt at finding peace. Peaceful rhythm. Like rocking a baby to sleep.
Louise Bourgeois