Author: Louise Bourgeois

Quotes

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

- Louise Bourgeois

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

My art is a form of restoration in terms of my feelings to myself and to others.

- Louise Bourgeois

I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be rewoven.

I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be rewoven.

- Louise Bourgeois

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

- Louise Bourgeois

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