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

Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious an…

- Lucy R. Lippard

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 t…

- 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

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

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

- 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

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

- Lucy R. Lippard

The camera was another weapon in the wars of domination.

- Lucy R. Lippard