"I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keepÂ things together and make things whole."

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Source : Louise Bourgeois, Gerald Matt, Peter Weiermair (2005). “Louise Bourgeois: Aller-Retour : Zeichnungen und Skulpturen”, Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst

Louise Bourgeois

#Together Quotes #Abandoned Quotes

“HATRED, n. A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.”
“The adventure is when people don't know what they're doing at all. Like, I think that the first pop band to use synthesizers as their main instrument and take it seriously was probably Silver Apples. And they sure didn't know what they were doing, and they sure don't sound like anything else.”
“What we shouldn't do is victimize and target Muslim communities specifically. But as things stand, there's one tribunal which has drawn a lot of flack - the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal.”
“When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a house-hold God, as well as a heavenly one; He has an altar in every man's dwelling.”
“[If critics of the Pledge of Allegiance persuaded the public it should be changed] then we could eliminate under God from the Pledge of Allegiance, that could be democratically done.”
“stay as strong as you can and during the times you can't, let other people be strong for you.”
“I want to try to make big films that hopefully connect with people.”
“I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.”

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