A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.
Louise BourgeoisRead
To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if I'm inspired by the results.
Interpretation
Emotional expression in art requires openness and receptivity to inspiration.
Louise Bourgeois emphasizes the importance of being open and receptive when creating art. She believes that true inspiration comes from the unconscious mind and that artists have a unique ability to tap into this source, leading to profound emotional expressions that resonate through their work.
In practice
During an art exhibition, I referenced Bourgeois's quote to highlight the importance of emotional depth in artistic expression.
A work of art doesn't have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn't touch you, I have failed.
Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They are like signposts in the search for the past.
Space is something that you have to define. Otherwise, it is like anxiety, which is too vague. A fear is something specific. I like claustrophobic spaces, because at least then you know your limits.
It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.
I always had the fear of being separated and abandoned. The sewing is my attempt to keep things together and make things whole.
It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.
Maybe that's what these films are doing. They are my way of blessing the child
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if you did one, you couldn’t do the other. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.
A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.
Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.
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