Top 14 Quotes by Louise Bourgeois

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

I was a 'runaway girl' from France who married an American and moved to New York City. I'm not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup.

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

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

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.

To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if I'm inspired by the results.

Even though what I do does enter the market, it doesn't interest me. I am exclusively concerned with the formal qualities of my work. It is about the need and the right to self-expression.

When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America.

My childhood has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama.