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Louise Bourgeois

  • For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.

    • Louise Bourgeois,
    • in Christiane Meyer-Thoss, Louise Bourgeois: Designing for Free Fall ()
  • Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

    • Louise Bourgeois,
    • in Christiane Meyer-Thoss, Louise Bourgeois: Designing for Free Fall ()
  • An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

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Louise Bourgeois, French-born U.S. artist, sculptor

(1911 - 2010)

Full name: Louise Joséphine Bourgeois.