Quotes by Women Artists

Frida Kahlo

Leni Riefenstahl

Georgia O'Keeffe

Beatrix Potter

Tove Jansson

Berthe Morisot

Käthe Kollwitz

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

Annie Leibovitz

There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty to them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has almost the embodiment of a prayer.

Julia Margaret Cameron

Become one with eternity.
Become part of your environment.
Take off your clothes.
Forget yourself. Make love.
Self-destruction is the only
way to peace.

Love must be learned, and learned again and again; there is no end to it. Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked.

Katherine Porter

I like that feeling when you're making art, that you're taking the energy out of your body and putting it into a physical object. I like things that are labor-intensive : you make a little thing and another little thing and another little thing, and eventually you see a possibility.

Describing her visit to a slaughter facility in Pennsylvania:

The floor was very slippery and the walls and everything else were covered with blood. Dried blood had formed a crust on the chains. I surely didn't want to fall down in all that blood and guts. The workers wore non-slip boots, yellow aprons, and helmets. It was a scene of controlled, mechanized chaos.

Modern art has led me to the comprehension and appreciation of Indian painting and sculpture. It seems paradoxical but I know for certain that had we not come away to Europe, I should perhaps never have realised that a fresco from Ajanta or a small piece of sculpture in the Musee Guimet is worth more than a whole Renaissance.'

Amrita Sher-Gil

All the famous people had had an awful time. One of them had a drunken father. Another had a stammer. Another had to wash hundreds of dirty bottles. They had all had what was called a difficult childhood. Clearly you had to have one if you wanted to become famous.

There is much wisdom that may be learned before a peat fire.

Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle

I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.

Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads.

If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.

Käthe Kollwitz

It follows that if you aren't happy with yourself, you won't be happy with others.

Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives.

Louise Nevelson

Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.

Elizabeth Enright

I would die if I had to be confined. I don't want to feel that I'm missing out on experiencing as much as I can. For me, experiencing is knowing people all over the world and being able to photograph.

Mary Ellen Mark

Infinitesimal is the nearest to zero infinitesimal is so small that it is no longer something but it is not yet nothing.

I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.

A piece of paper from the outside world is as thin as the shell of a snowbird's egg.

Kenojuak Ashevak

I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!

Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

E. L. Konigsburg

I'm a sucker for tragedy - I love the death scenes.

I once read in a Bible commentary that the word "Christian" means "little Christs." What an honor to share Christ's name! We can be bold to call ourselves Christians and bear the stamp of his character and reputation. When people find out the you are a Christian, they should already have an idea of who you are and what you are like simply because you bear such a precious name.

Joni Eareckson Tada

It is my goal as an artist to create works that expose injustice and reveal beauty. The rainbow is literally a spectrum of color while spiritually a symbol of hope and promise.