"I do not want to shock, I want to be precise." The secret of sculptor Louise Bourgeois is most clearly manifested in her own words. Louise Bourgeois is the embodiment of the exaggeration artist, almost a pop icon. Her humor and serenity are hard-earned and lived additions that come with a delay, bestowing grandeur and brilliance upon her works. This book by Bourgeois pioneer Christiane Meyer-Thoss is a reprint. It includes an introduction to her work, excerpts from conversations with the artist, and numerous quotes. The publication honors the intense collaboration between the author and Louise Bourgeois, whose international reception was still to come at that time. Among other things, the artist discovered, through continuous conversations with Christiane Meyer-Thoss and later with other authors, the eloquence and impact of her words.