on portraits and peopling the world (bourgeois)

On “Untitled,” 1946: At one point I stopped making self-portraits, and I included the people that lived with me. I would say that it had to do with the problem of the toi and the moi, of the you and the me. Life is not worth living if you talk only about the moi. Life is interesting in terms of others. To be without others, it is not worth living. To live alone—unless you are religious character—isn’t worth it.
- 53, Louise Bourgeois: Drawings & Observations – Louise Bourgeois w/ Lawrence Rinder