8 quotes found
"When you're painting you feel quite attune with everything... it's a great pleasure, quite addictive."
"I felt very strongly about feminism and photography better expressed my political ideals."
"They become a body not a person, then just an image not an image of a person."
"I think I would have been more successful, but less interesting."
"It was too hard to be a feminist artist on your own; the criticism was too great to bear."
"Art is a structure of symbols, and those people who do not comprehend that language will pass it by."
"I don't want to work unless there is some meaning that by painting I can communicate something personal and political. A painting is ambiguous, very sensuous and has to come from your core."
"I might refer to the female now, but she is always active, symbolic of female action and although painted in a sensual style, she is not up for sale, not offered to the viewer. This is one of the reasons I started using animals."