Lucy R. Lippard Quotes

#1. Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we'd probably learn twice as much.

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#2. A great many contemporary artists from hugely diverse backgrounds are currently approaching the prospect of cultural mixing ...

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#3. Why are we still afraid of being other than men? Women are still in hiding.

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#4. The camera was another weapon in the wars of domination.

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#5. Despite having been awarded the dubious honor of arthood, all photography is still perceived as having one foot in the real world, a toe in the chilly waters of verisimilitude, no matter how often it is demonstrated that photographs can and do lie.

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#6. An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of the rage.

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#7. I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art from artists ... I see myself as an advocate and an activist and a writer.

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#8. Photographers find themselves directly in competition with mass media's misrepresentations of women. So the photographic terrain is particularly contested from a political point of view.

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#9. A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.

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#10. Men have dominated the field of landscape photography just as they have dominated the land itself. Thus shooting a virgin landscape has been man's work - hunting, not gardening.

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#11. There is indeed something omnivorous about the act of photography. It offers a way of responding to everything about everything.

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