above and beyond
I’m afraid of power. It makes me nervous. In real life, I identify with the victim, that is why I went into art. In my art, I am the murderer. I feel for the ordeal of the murderer, the man who has to live with his conscience.
The process is to go from passive to active. As an artist I am a powerful person. In real life, I feel like the mouse behind the radiator.
It is mind over matter. You transcend real life in your art.
- Louise Bourgeois from Self Expression is Sacred and Fatal