Quotes by Louise Bourgeois

“An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.”

“It is a woman who hides. She believes that she can hide, which is foolishness; nobody can hide anything. And secondly, nobody would present herself naked the way she does. You have to be high to do this. This woman is obviously nice-looking, but she does not realize the effect she has on us. She does not know that she is half naked, and she does not know that she is trying to hide. That is to say, she is totally self-defeating, because she shows herself at the very moment that she thinks she is hiding.”

It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.

And what’s the use of talking, if you already know that others don’t feel what you feel?

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

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