Lucy R. Lippard Quotes

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.

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’

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

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

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 work - hunting, not gardening.

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

The camera was another weapon in the wars of domination.

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.