Allen Brown Quotes

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.

There`s no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that`s really great.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

People have accepted the media`s idea of what feminism is, but that doesn`t mean that it`s right or true or real. Feminism is not monolithic. Within feminism, there is an array of opinions.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn`t figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go to make art? Of course not.

That is the age-old question: Is it nature or culture? We can`t actually see what the real differences are between men and women because we live in such a culture-bound world.

You shouldn`t have to justify your work.

I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I`m interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that`s definitely changed.

I think what`s important is to give space to the range of human experience.