unexpressed

 
A small piece of Donald Kuspit’s interview with artist and sculptor Louise Bourgeois in 1988:

DK: “Do you feel modern art has a special relationship to the painful difficulty of self-expression in the modern world?”

LB: “Definitely. It is about the hurt of not being able to express yourself properly, to express your intimate relations, your unconscious, to trust the world enough to express yourself directly in it. It is about trying to be sane in this situation, of being tentatively and temporarily sane by expressing yourself. All art comes from terrific failures and terrific needs that we have. It is about the difficulty of being self because one is neglected. Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect, the need to be recognized, which is not satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.”