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Louise Bourgeois was a French-born American sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Known for her complex sculptures that often deal with themes of family, sex, death, and fear, Bourgeois' work spans multiple artistic movements, including Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, and Minimalism.

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Famous Louise Bourgeois Quotes

“At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the soft bread with my fingers. With the dough of the French bread %u2013 sometimes it was still warm %u2013 I would make little figures. And I would line them up on the table and this was really my first sculpture.”

People Firsts Littles Stills Sometimes Lines Figures Tables Fingers Warm Dinner Bread Sculpture Bourgeois Dinner Table Dough Modelling Bickering French Bread

Author:Louise Bourgeois

“Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.”

Ifs Past Accepting Abandon Our Past Sculpture Your Past Sculptors

Book:Louise Bourgeois: memoria y arquitectura : Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 16 de noviembre de 1999-14 de febrero del 2000

Source: Louise Bourgeois: memoria y arquitectura : Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 16 de noviembre de 1999-14 de febrero del 2000

“For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.”

Body Sculpture

Book:Louise Bourgeois: blue days and pink days

Source: Louise Bourgeois: blue days and pink days

“In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.”

Art Ideas Past Goal Emotion Art Is Seeking Sculpture Exorcism

Book:Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997

Source: Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997

“It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.”

Feelings Able Privilege Sculpture

Author:Louise Bourgeois

About the Author

Born: December 25, 1911
Died: May 31, 2010
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 70

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