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Louise Bourgeois was a 20th-century American american artist. Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“And whats the use of talking, if you already know that others dont feel what you feel?”
— Louise Bourgeois
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“To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.”
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“An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.”
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“And what’s the use of talking, if you already know that others don’t feel what you feel?”
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