Art Quote by Isabel Bishop

“Women wanted men who made money, women wanted men of mark. How many classy women were living with skid row bums? Well, I didn't…

— Charles Bukowski

I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the conclusion that…

— Nancy Spero

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for…

— Mary Cassatt

I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I came at a time where male artists where dominating, so I had to do something quick to get people's attention. I wanted to…

— Lady Saw

Women artists are still treated differently from men.

— Yoko Ono

I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others, often art…

— Alice Walker

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.

— Jeanette Winterson

Still, I wonder if more women artists, musicians and writers aren't household names because we don't have enough faith in our own pursuits to…

— Anonymous

There's an idea that it's hard to be a woman artist. People assume that women have fewer opportunities, less power. But it's not any…

— Annie Leibovitz

The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for representation forms…

— Whitney Chadwick

I paint flowers so they will not die.

— Frida Kahlo

I've had my bubblegum years and I did them well. Now it's time to come back as the woman, artist, and musician that I…

— Irene Cara

A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision…

— Alfred Stieglitz

Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?

— Francine du Plessix Gray