overcoding:

Excerpts from Louise Bourgeois dragging me kicking and screaming into hell: 

“This sense of reparation is very deep within me. I break everything I touch because I am violent… I break things because I am afraid and I spend my time repairing.” 

“Art comes from the inability to seduce. I am unable to make myself loved.”

“I do not claim that my work is a communication, because that is like a game also. I do not play the communication game, because one will always be betrayed in communication as in love.”

“Beauty is a series of experiences. It is not a noun. People have experiences. If they feel an intense aesthetic pleasure, they take that experience and project it into the object. They experience the idea of beauty, but beauty in and of itself does not exist.”

“Each of these boxes represents one of us. We have to stop running and take our places in the circle and face ourselves in front of each other. That is to say, to face how limited and uninteresting we are. Every one of us has to do this in front of everybody else… Nothing can let us escape this confrontation. We have to come to terms with ourselves, with how bad we are, how limited we are, how short our life is.”