on motivation (bourgeois)

On “Untitled,” 1949: …It is a mechanical thing. By mechanical you mean something that works. I am interested in cars because they self-propel themselves for reasons that are reasonable and mechanical. So this is it: How am I going to be self-operating all by myself? Well, I can do that if I can invent something that keeps me going.
- 83, Louise Bourgeois: Drawings & Observations – Louise Bourgeois w/ Lawrence Rinder