Body Quote by Diego Rivera

“Her intimate, edgy sculpture was grounded in female experience, including relationships, giving birth and motherhood.”

— Jan Greenberg

“The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma…

— Peter Brooks

“A lot is being said today about the influence that the myths and images of women have on all of us who are products…

— Adrienne Rich

“It would take a denial of all cultural tradition for women to produce even a true 'female' art. For a woman who participates in…

— Shulamith Firestone

... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In the case of an artistic practice that performs female narcissism..., the threat lies in its making superfluous the arbiters of artistic value. Already…

— Amelia Jones

“She is obscene to the extent to which she is beautiful. Her beauty, her submissiveness and the false expectations that these qualities will do…

— Angela Carter

“The modern hallucination in which women are trapped or trap themselves is similarly rigid, cruel, and euphemistically painted. Contemporary culture directs attention to imagery…

— Naomi Wolf

I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about a woman…

— Laurie Simmons

“Art was a union of the father and mother worlds, of mind and blood. It might start in utter sensuality and lead to total…

— Hermann Hesse

One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

— Robert Motherwell