Showing posts with label repair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label repair. Show all posts

Friday, 2 June 2023

Quotes: Louise Bourgeois

"But there is something else in the assemblage, there is the restoration and reparation. Mind you that is what my parents did, they restored and repaired tapestries, so there is a common attitude. To repair a thing, to find something broken, to find a tapestry torn apart with big holes in it and destroyed and step by step rebuild it –– making an assemblage is that. You repair the thing until you remake it completely." 

–– Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), French-American artist 

Source: Germano Gelant. Louise Bourgeois. The Fabric Works, 2010, p. 251. 

via: Sketchbook 32, 2022, p. 108.

Thursday, 3 November 2022

Quotes: Louise Bourgeois

"The act of sewing is a process of emotional repair." 

–– Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), French-American artist 

via: Sketchbook A, 2018, p. 63. 

Monday, 28 April 2014

Quotes: Louise Bourgeois

"Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented – which is what fear and anxiety do to a person – into something whole." – Louise Bourgeois