How do we get utopian thinking in a dystopian world? These days we aren't talking to each other - we're screaming and trying to hit each other over t…

- Carolee Schneemann

I'm used to working with neglect and misunderstanding, so this has been really challenging. It's a different psychic realm. The Lion did not land eas…

- Carolee Schneemann

I grew up doing farm work, and there's a deep connection between the demands of farming and the demands of art creation. My sense of space and materi…

- Carolee Schneemann

In the end, it's always a single person who makes change. But I do think we should try to send artists out into the world and not have them all stick…

- Carolee Schneemann

Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.

- Carolee Schneemann

The people from where I grew up have no appreciation for Paleolithic rocks or menstrual calendars. I'm a retriever of lost iconographies. But I had r…

- Carolee Schneemann

An older friend once told me, "Life didn't ask for your opinion," which I liked.

- Carolee Schneemann

The way I understand composition and form and my ability to enter into material all comes from my disciplines and my commitment as a painter - my ene…

- Carolee Schneemann

It's a very difficult age when the forces of time want to destroy us and take us away. They're just snatching people like devils; death comes and gra…

- Carolee Schneemann