Jan Greenberg > Quotes

“When Louise worried bout something, it often turned up in her art.”
― Jan Greenberg, Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois

“Instead of tall and angular shapes regarded as masculine and aggressive, she now turned to soft, rounded forms identified as female or nurturing.”
― Jan Greenberg, Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois

“My inspiration comes from the beauty of the past. That's where I am completely omnipotent. -Louise Bourgeois”
― Jan Greenberg, Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois

“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”
― Jan Greenberg, Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois

“(How do you know a piece is finished?:) It's never finished. The subject is never exhausted. -Louise Bourgeois”
― Jan Greenberg, Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois

“Whether through blind luck or sound business sense, Blum ended up buying the whole set of soup cans for $1,000, paying $100 per month till it was paid off. In 1999 he sold them to the Museum of Modern Art for $7 million in cash and a $7 million tax deduction.”
― Jan Greenberg, Andy Warhol, Prince of Pop

“Her intimate, edgy sculpture was grounded in female experience, including relationships, giving birth and motherhood.”
― Jan Greenberg, Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois

“She wanted children and considered having them a "privilege," but art also "was a privilege given to me and I had to pursue it.”
― Jan Greenberg, Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois

“She doesn't attend gallery openings or apear at art-world parties. "People need to see the work. It's more me than my physical presence.”
― Jan Greenberg, Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois

“If he believed he was doing the right thing, other people’s opinions didn’t matter.”
― Jan Greenberg, Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist

“but he instinctively feels, I am good for something, my life has a purpose after all… How could I be useful, of what service can I be?”
― Jan Greenberg, Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist

“Asked if she was a feminist, Louise said she wasn't sure, but she was a woman--her art couldn't help reflecting that.”
― Jan Greenberg, Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois

“1 always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. Love a friend, a wife, something—whatever you like—you will be on your way to knowing more about Him.”
― Jan Greenberg, Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist

“The more I am spent, ill, a broken pitcher, the more I become an artist, creator, in this revival of the arts.”
― Jan Greenberg, Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist