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> [There is indeed something omnivorous about the act of photography. It offers a way of responding to everything about everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-r-lippard/there-is-indeed-something-omnivorous-about-the-act-of-photography-it/)

[Lucy R. Lippard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-r-lippard/)

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## More by Lucy R. Lippard

> [“Looking at and 'appreciating' art has been understood as an instrument (or at best a result) of upward mobility, in which owning art is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-r-lippard/looking-at-and-appreciating-art-has-been-understood-as-an-instrument/)

[Lucy R. Lippard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-r-lippard/travel-is-the-only-context-in-which-some-people-ever-look-around-if/)

[Lucy R. Lippard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-r-lippard/photographers-find-themselves-directly-in-competition-with-mass-media/)

[Lucy R. Lippard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-r-lippard/)

> [“The postmodern notion of "appropriation" is not a good fit. In New Mexico, the "indigenous" is a syncretic fusion of Native American and Hispano…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-r-lippard/the-postmodern-notion-of-appropriation-is-not-a-good-fit-in-new/)

[Lucy R. Lippard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-r-lippard/)

> [Despite having been awarded the dubious honor of arthood, all photography is still perceived as having one foot in the real world, a toe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-r-lippard/despite-having-been-awarded-the-dubious-honor-of-arthood-all/)

[Lucy R. Lippard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-r-lippard/)

> [There is indeed something omnivorous about the act of photography. It offers a way of responding to everything about everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-r-lippard/there-is-indeed-something-omnivorous-about-the-act-of-photography-it/)

[Lucy R. Lippard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-r-lippard/)

> [Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are often condemned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-r-lippard/given-the-lack-of-public-skills-in-reading-photographs-given-that/)

[Lucy R. Lippard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-r-lippard/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-r-lippard/i-intensely-dislike-the-word-critic-because-it-puts-you-in-an/)

[Lucy R. Lippard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-r-lippard/)

> [The camera was another weapon in the wars of domination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-r-lippard/the-camera-was-another-weapon-in-the-wars-of-domination/)

[Lucy R. Lippard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-r-lippard/)

> [I must admit to a personal lack of sympathy with women who have themselves photographed in black stockings, garter belts and boots, with bare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-r-lippard/i-must-admit-to-a-personal-lack-of-sympathy-with-women-who-have/)

[Lucy R. Lippard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-r-lippard/)

> [A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as 'material' as a ton of lead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-r-lippard/a-piece-of-paper-or-a-photograph-is-as-much-an-object-or-as-material/)

[Lucy R. Lippard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-r-lippard/)

> [Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized’](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-r-lippard/conceptual-art-for-me-means-work-in-which-the-idea-is-paramount-and/)

[Lucy R. Lippard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-r-lippard/)

> [Why are we still afraid of being other than men? Women are still in hiding.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-r-lippard/why-are-we-still-afraid-of-being-other-than-men-women-are-still-in/)

[Lucy R. Lippard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lucy-r-lippard/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucy-r-lippard/men-have-dominated-the-field-of-landscape-photography-just-as-they/)

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