(1911–2010)
French-born U.S. sculptor and painter
Louise Bourgeois
I make drawings to suppress the unspeakable. The unspeakable is not a problem for me. It’s even the beginning of the work. It’s the reason for the work; the motivation of the work is to destroy the unspeakable.
The Drawing Book edited by Tania Kovats (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2007), 240.