“It was just that i had the feeling that the art scene belonged to the men, and that I was in some way invading their domain. Therefore the work was hidden away." -Louise Bourgeois”

“My inspiration comes from the beauty of the past. That's where I am completely omnipotent. -Louise Bourgeois”

“We hope to see a Europe where men of every country will think of being a European as of belonging to their native land, and...wherever they go in this wide domain...will truly feel, ‘Here I am at home.”

“It is now recognised that dissociation is a way of forgetting, for a time. The mind siphons off the bad memories into a separate part, and reclaiming those hidden-away memories us a complex process. So, when the memories resurface it does not feel as though they belong to you, it feels alien, more as if someone had told them to you, or you had seen the images in a film.”

“(How do you know a piece is finished?:) It's never finished. The subject is never exhausted. -Louise Bourgeois”

“I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.”