Lippard Quotes & Sayings

Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are often condemned to making pretty pictures. Dramatic clouds and sifting light can overwhelm more mundane information. Yet who can resist beautiful landscape pictures of one kind or another? Not I. — Lucy R. Lippard

Perspective is a powerful attitude, providing the ability to see circumstances, no matter how challenging, as an opportunity. — Chris Vonada

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

Sitting on a sofa that smelled like an earlier era — Haruki Murakami

Hold the Earth tightly and fondly because you owe your existence to the Earth! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I bitterly recalled that I had no arms. — George Lippard

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

Let's be honest, for a lot of well meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear. — Hillary Clinton

Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands. — Matt Haig

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

I was a drama major also so it's cool to cuss for meaning, but for no apparent reason, no. — Kel Mitchell

Why are we still afraid of being other than men? Women are still in hiding. — Lucy R. Lippard

A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead. — Lucy R. Lippard

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

The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart. — Susan Sontag

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance. — Eddie Marsan

I must admit to a personal lack of sympathy with women who have themselves photographed in black stockings, garter belts and boots, with bare breasts, bananas, and coy, come-hither glances ... A woman using her own face and body has a right to do what she will with them, but it is a subtle abyss that separates men's use of women for sexual titillation from women's use of women to expose that insult. — Lucy R. Lippard

I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love. — Charlotte Arnold

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

There is indeed something omnivorous about the act of photography. It offers a way of responding to everything about everything. — Lucy R. Lippard

The God of this planet was not worth the religion. — Carlton Mellick III

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them. — Pablo Picasso

A great many contemporary artists from hugely diverse backgrounds are currently approaching the prospect of cultural mixing ... — Lucy R. Lippard

Money Compounding is one concept that does not hit you unless your stars are aligned — Manoj Arora

The camera was another weapon in the wars of domination. — Lucy R. Lippard

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