“THE POSITION OF ART IN THE WOMEN’S LIBERATION MOVEMENT IS THE POSITION OF WOMAN IN THE ART MOVEMENT”
Women’s Art: A Manifesto, 1972
“Men have succeeded through the millennia in expressing their ideas of the erotic, of sex and beauty, their mythology of strength, virility and discipline in sculptures, paintings, novels, films, dramas, drawing etc…”
“I’d like to see popular culture taking women seriously and saying, – God, life was so boring when we only looked at male painters/photographers/sculptors/filmmakers”
“Il est plus que temps que nous, les femmes, utilisions l’art comme un moyen d’expression…pour permettre à nos idées de pénétrer le concept sociale de la réalité…”
VALIE EXPORT
Linz, Austria, 1940