Quotes by Women Printmakers

Mary Cassatt

Elizabeth Catlett

Anni Albers

I feel that as religion is a vocation for many people—and nuns and monks are solitary people—so art is a comparable vocation for artists because of the solitariness of our work.

Elisabeth Frink

At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.

Creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.

My artwork is about resistance, de-colonization, self-definition, self-empowerment and survival. I draw upon myths, family folklore, and indigenismo (a native way of being). I reinterpret and register all these as cultural, visual, iconographic manifestations of my identity. As the subject matter of my art, I exalt a lineage of women, energized from a sacred space of creation.

If a woman has her PhD in physics, has mastered quantum theory, plays flawless Chopin, was once a cheerleader, and is now married to a man who plays baseball, she will forever be "former cheerleader married to star athlete."

Maryanne Ellison Simmons

Advance is difficult and departure from the accepted path is dangerous; but difficulty and danger are old acquaintances.

Elizabeth Catlett