Louise Bourgeois

The goal of art is to make the invisible visible.

Memory is imagination at work.

I weave the web of my life.

Art is a way of recognizing oneself.

I am a prisoner of my childhood.

The house is a metaphor for the body.

I always return to the spider.

Pain is the source of creativity.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the present.

The mother is the protector, the father is the aggressor.

Art is a revolt against fate.

I make art to come to terms with my emotions.

The cell is a place of solitude and confinement.

I am my own muse.

Sexuality is a part of life, not a secret.

The needle is the weapon of the seamstress.

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

Art is the cry of the soul.

I am not afraid of death; I am afraid of not living.

The fabric of my life is woven with threads of memory.