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

- Lucy R. Lippard

I must admit to a personal lack of sympathy with women who have themselves photographed in black stockings, garter belts and boots, with bare breasts…

- Lucy R. Lippard

An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at…

- Lucy R. Lippard

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

- Lucy R. Lippard

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

- Lucy R. Lippard

I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art from…

- Lucy R. Lippard

Despite having been awarded the dubious honor of arthood, all photography is still perceived as having one foot in the real world, a toe in the chill…

- Lucy R. Lippard

The camera was another weapon in the wars of domination.

- Lucy R. Lippard

Photographers find themselves directly in competition with mass media's misrepresentations of women. So the photographic terrain is particularly cont…

- Lucy R. Lippard