"Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor."

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Source : Louise Bourgeois, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (1999). “Louise Bourgeois: memoria y arquitectura : Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 16 de noviembre de 1999-14 de febrero del 2000”, Actar-D

Louise Bourgeois

#Past Quotes #Sculpture Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“Almost all women have hearts full of pity.”
“Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her.”
“So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship, we will never feel the free wind blow.”
“Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.”
“I've worked with some absolutely wonderful directors who bring out the best in me and I know I can trust, and then I've had the opposite experience, too. I've had both experiences, and obviously one is good and one is not good. When they're great, it's good. When they're not great, it's not so great.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.”

Source : "Olivier Dahan: 'I don't read the Grace of Monaco critics'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2014.
“Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?”

Source : E. T. A. Hoffmann (2000). “The Golden Pot and Other Tales”, p.20, Oxford University Press, USA
“Listen carefully. The way(s) we speak about things is revealing.”

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