Lucy Lippard Quotes

#1. 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

#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. It was the feet they'd do, for a first offense. They used steel cables, frayed at the ends. After

Margaret Atwood

#4. 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

#5. There's nothing weak about being subject to something.

Kristen Stewart

#6. Our thinking tends to be hazy, hasty, narrow, or sprawling-causal terms for impulsive. Just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished, they'll fade away.

David Perkins

#7. Irrespective of how we physiologically are made, even possessing special weaknesses, we can overcome our sins through the Lord.

Watchman Nee

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

Lucy R. Lippard

#9. Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#10. 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

#11. I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.

Maude Adams

#12. 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

#13. I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#14. Magnificent opportunity is often obscured by a humble veil ...

Simon Boylan

#15. Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now.

Lauren Oliver

#16. I was going round the world searching for an interesting place, when I realized that the place that I was in was already interesting.

Emmet Gowin

#17. I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

Samantha Barks

#18. We call things we don't understand complex, but that means we haven't found a good way of thinking about them.

Tsutomu Shimomura

#19. 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

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

Lucy R. Lippard

#21. He has a reptile dysfunction.

Jodi Picoult

#22. There are good people who do good things, there are bad people who do bad things, but to get a good person to do a bad thing takes religion.

Bill Maher

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

Lucy R. Lippard

#24. I always tell Asian actors, especially Filipinos wanting to break into Hollywood, to study, study and study and show their best. I haven't stopped studying. There's an abundance of roles, and all you have to do is prove to them that you are good for the role.

Reggie Lee

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

Lucy R. Lippard

#26. 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