Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays Quotes

“But in actuality, as we all know, things as they are and as they have been, in the arts as in a hundred other areas, are stultifying, oppressive, and discouraging to all those, women among them, who did not have the good fortune to be born white, preferably middle class and, above all, male. The fault lies not in our stars, our hormones, our menstrual cycles, or our empty internal spaces, but in our institutions and our education--education understood to include everything that happens to us from the moment we enter this world of meaningful symbols, signs, and signals.”
― Linda Nochlin, Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays

“Art-making, the very creation of beauty itself, was equated with the representation of the female nude. Here, the very notion of the originary power of the artist, his status as creator of unique and valuable objects, is founded on the discourse of gender difference as power.”
― Linda Nochlin, Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays

“ideology is successful precisely to the degree that its views are shared by those who exercise power and those who submit to it.”
― Linda Nochlin, Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays