Monday, 26 December 2016

the restoration and recognition of feelings and freedom (25 December 2016)


 Louise Bourgeois  & Tracey Emin, Reaching for you, 2009–2010

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.
- Louise Bourgeois

 Louise Bourgeois  & Tracey Emin, Deep inside my heart, 2009–2010


My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.
- Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois, Blue is the Color of Your Eyes, 2008

What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach. This is a painful situation, and modern art is about this painful situation of having no absolutely definite way of expressing yourself.
- Louise Bourgeois 

Louise Bourgeois, Untitled, 2004

The colour blue - that is my colour - and the colour blue means you have left the drabness of day-to-day reality to be transported into - not a world of fantasy, it's not a world of fantasy - but a world of freedom where you can say what you like and what you don't like. This has been expressed forever by the colour blue, which is really sky blue.
- Louise Bourgeois

 Louise Bourgeois, Untitled (Fabric Works), 2003

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
- Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois, Eccentric Growth, c. 1963-67

Art is a way of recognising oneself...
- Louise Bourgeois


I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it.
- Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois - Printemps, 2008

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