It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings … - Louise Bourgeois

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If we're going to be an effective, efficient economy, we need to have all part of that engine running well, and that includes Wall Street and Main Street.

Louise Bourgeois

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

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A work of art doesn't have to be explained.

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

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If you flatter me, or if you look at me the right way, I will kill myself to please you. It's very painful to be an overachiever.

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My mother was a restorer, she repaired broken things. I don't do that. I destroy things. I cannot go the straight line. I must destroy, rebuild, destroy again. My rhythm is not the same. My mother moved in a straight line: I go from one extreme to the other.

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You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.

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If we're going to be an effective, efficient economy, we need to have all part of that engine running well, and that includes Wall Street and Main Street.

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With complete consecration comes perfect peace.

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