What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixe… - Louise Bourgeois

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What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach. This is a painful situation, and modern art is about this painful situation of having no absolutely definite way of expressing yourself.

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About Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois (25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010) was a French-American artist and sculptor.

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Alternative Names: Louise Goldwater Louise Joséphine Bourgeois
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At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering – the father saying something, the mother choosing to defend herself. To escape the bickering, I started modelling the soft bread with my fingers. With the dough of the French bread – sometimes it was still warm – I would make little figures. And I would line them up on the table and this was really my first sculpture.

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England is very, very important to me, because in my family the English could do no wrong. When my father picked a mistress, it was always an English girl: if he made her pregnant, she could be shipped back to England and he would not be held responsible. It never happened, but I've made a lot of work called The English Can Do No Wrong.

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