A Quote by Louise Bourgeois

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.

Louise Bourgeois

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Louise Bourgeois
French - Artist
December 25, 1911 - May 31, 2010

With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.

David Lindsay-Abaire

Copywriters on Madison Avenue constantly grapple with the question of where their work sits on the totem pole of 'real' writing.

David Droga

Years ago, I worked at a fashion magazine. I was the lowest man on the totem pole, one of the only men on that particular pole: a little brother with a dozen older sisters whose grace and glamour I so admired.

Rumaan Alam

As a reader I don't distinguish between confessional and non-confessional work. After all, how do we even know that certain "I" poems are confessional? It's a tricky business, this correlating of the speaker and the poet.

Matthea Harvey

Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.

Bill Viola

Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so we're just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.

Barry Manilow

I was a sharecropper's son. That's as low as you can get on the totem pole.

Hal Needham

Atrial fibrillation has been the low man on the totem pole and so were just trying to get more visibility about this particular disease and how dangerous this could be.

Barry Manilow

Trump says what he thinks at that moment. He's a totem pole of transparency.

Greg Gutfeld

The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They had inbred and ingrown and finally emerged from the Kentucky hills like some remnant of Attila the Hung's barbarian horde. Flick said that they had webbed feet and only three toes. It might have been true.

Jean Shepherd

You can't really get into regular football after you watch Australian rules football because it's just two different ends of the totem pole.

Andrew Bogut

Michael Bennett, Tommy Tune and Agnes de Mille fought to be director-choreographers. They were just not going to do it any other way because the choreographer is so often at the bottom of the creative totem pole when you put a show together. So with that power you get a more direct point-of-view and that helps something called style.