Quotes by Women Artists

Let's stick together." "Well, you're going to have to wait here for me there: I'm going to the bathroom." "But how long are you going to be?" "Oh, three hours?" "Rocky...

The wonderful thing about being an artist is that there is no end to creative expression. Painting is my life; my life is painting.

Lois Mailou Jones

It is terrifying to think of what a commodity art has become.

Change only what you can't live with, but try to accept who you are, and say yes to what makes you unique. Your confidence will make you sexier than any beauty product or accessory you could possibly buy.

Knowing what you can do at any given time to look and feel better is pretty powerful.

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

I see art-making, especially that which comes from the margins of the mainstream, as a site of resistance, a way of interrupting and intervening in those historical and cultural fields that continually exclude me, a sort of gathering of forces on the borders. For the dominant hegemonic stance that has worked to silence and subdue gender and ethnic difference has also silenced difference based on sexual preference.

Harmony Hammond

Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes.

Trina Schart Hyman

We are Afropolitans: not citizens, but Africans of the world.

It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl!

Kathryn Tucker Windham

Painting is a lot harder than pickin' cotton. Cotton's right there for you to pull off the stalk, but to paint, you got to sweat your mind.

Clementine Hunter

I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors of Southern slavery but with next to no resources, other than some paper and a pen knife and some people she'd like to kill.

The Little House was very happy as she sat on the hill and watched the countryside around her. She watched the sun rise in the morning and she watched the sun set in the evening. Day followed day, each one a little different from the one before... but the Little House stayed just the same.

Virginia Lee Burton

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

My aim has always been modest; I wanted to transform the arranged marriage (of art and architecture) into a love match.

Marcelle Ferron

We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at the one, but we laugh at the drollery of the other — as the world goes a pun is regarded as an imponderable commodity, all know the rank it holds in the order of pure intellect.

I came into DreamWorks looking to direct. I was hoping to go through story as a way toward directing, because that's how it worked at Disney, story people became heads of story, and heads of story became directors. And they said, 'Right now we don't have a lot of story, but we have visual development,' and I said, 'Good, I paint!'

I wanted to make photographs that were immediate and revealing - different from traditional portraiture that called for formal distance between artist and subject.

Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real.

Squeak Carnwath

The point in all cases is that the deities must be made to laugh.

Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift.

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

Kenojuak Ashevak

I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity.

To give life to sculpture I found it must have a pulse, a breathing quality that could change in a flash, and it must never appear static, hard, or unrevealing. All these demands formed themslves in my thoughts, and became like an endless obsession.

Malvina Hoffman

Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty.

Martha Friedman