Quotes by Judy Chicago

Judy Chicago

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn’t figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

Art

Thinking

Wish

Because men have a history, it is difficult for them to imagine what it is like to grow up without one, or the sense of personal expansion that comes from discovering that we women have a worthy heritage. Along with pride often comes rage – rage that one has been deprived of such a significant knowledge.

Growing Up

Men

Pride

Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other’s shoulders and building upon each other’s hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of The Dinner Party is to break this cycle.

Accomplishment

Goal

Party

Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

Art

Gender

Thinking

Don’t give up. It’s really important to trust your impulses as an artist no matter what anybody else says.

Artist

Giving Up

Important

Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.

Feminist

Husband

My Husband

Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world, it is enough to make me rise eagerly from my bed each morning and face the challenge of breaking the historic silence that has held women captive for so long.

Long

Morning

Women

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

Art

Believe

Feminist

I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are striving for alternatives in an increasingly dehumanized world. I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

Art

Believe

Real

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

Art

Generations

Immortality

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Art

Artist

Becoming

Believe

Christian

Done

Education

Female

Feminist

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Gender

Generations

Giving

Giving Up

Goal

Growing Up

Heritage

Husband

Immortality

Important

Inspirational

Justify

Language

Long

Lying

Males

Men

Moon

Morning

Motivational

My Husband

Numbers

Party

Past

Play

Pride

Principles

Professors

Real

Remember

School

Shapes

Sight

Sisterhood

Space

Strong Women

Struggle

Thinking

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Quotes by Judy Chicago

Judy Chicago

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn’t figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

Don’t give up. It’s really important to trust your impulses as an artist no matter what anybody else says.

Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.

Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world, it is enough to make me rise eagerly from my bed each morning and face the challenge of breaking the historic silence that has held women captive for so long.

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

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