Lippard Quotes

#1. If we admit a thing so extraordinary as the creation of this world, it should seem that we admit something strange, and odd, and new to human apprehension, beyond any other miracle whatsoever.

George Berkeley

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

Lucy R. Lippard

#3. 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.

Lucy R. Lippard

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

Lucy R. Lippard

#5. 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.

Lucy R. Lippard

#6. That could be the carrot on the top of the cake

Stan Collymore

#7. I bitterly recalled that I had no arms.

George Lippard

#8. 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.

Lucy R. Lippard

#9. 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.

Lucy R. Lippard

#10. Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others

Matthieu Ricard

#11. 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.

Lucy R. Lippard

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

Lucy R. Lippard

#13. What is it with these people and shoving me up against hard surfaces?

Bella Forrest

#14. I've come a long way to get nowhere at all, I thought. And I've spent everything I have to get here.

Richard Kadrey

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

Lucy R. Lippard

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

Lucy R. Lippard

#17. 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.

Lucy R. Lippard