Lucy R Lippard Inspirational Quotes (8)

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.

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

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.

The camera was another weapon in the wars of domination.

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.

Why are we still afraid of being other than men? Women are still in hiding.

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.

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