Amount Quote by Kiki Smith

It's interesting that female artists are underrepresented in exhibitions. That may be down to the fact that the people in power in the art…

— Grayson Perry

If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's…

— Salman Rushdie

Art often reflects what's going on in the world, and we're seeing stories that are very diverse and that are lead and made by…

— Elisabeth Moss

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

— John Ciardi

“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

This is - it's a sociological experiment in many ways. And so you're seeing the results of what happens when you put a lot…

— Kehinde Wiley

“Historically, women have either been excluded from the process of creating the definitions of what is considered art or allowed to participate only if…

— Judy Chicago

I teach a graduate photo seminar at Yale, and I sometimes feel so overwhelmed by the task the students set before themselves to be…

— Laurie Simmons

We will never get great art from women if their education exposes them only to the second-rate and if the idea of greatness itself…

— Camille Paglia

I think the problem with the arts in America is how unimportant it seems to be in our educational system.

— Chuck Close

As far as I can tell the only thing worth looking at in most museums of art is all the schoolgirls on daytrips with…

— Banksy

Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be…

— Jerry Saltz