Judy Chicago quotes

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. (Judy Chicago)
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. View quote
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I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience. View quote
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People have accepted the media's idea of what feminism is, but that doesn't mean that it's right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions. View quote
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I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history. View quote
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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. View quote
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So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it. View quote
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I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas. View quote
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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. View quote
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Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist. View quote
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You shouldn't have to justify your work. (Judy Chicago)
With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed. View quote
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There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great. View quote
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At a certain point power becomes very frightening, and to really begin to reconstruct civilization means to really act in a powerful way. And power is the thing that women have been taught is a real taboo. View quote
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