Judy Chicago quotes

Judy Chicago is an American artist, educator, and writer widely recognized for her pioneering work in feminist art. Her most famous installation, "The Dinner Party," challenged conventional narratives and celebrated women's history and achievements. She continues to inspire new generations through her art and advocacy for gender equality. Here are 14 of her quotes:

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.

Judy Chicago

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

Judy Chicago

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.

Judy Chicago

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

Judy Chicago

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.

Judy Chicago

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

Judy Chicago

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.

Judy Chicago

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.

Judy Chicago

Donald, my husband, considers himself a feminist.

Judy Chicago

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.

Judy Chicago

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.

Judy Chicago

At a certain point power becomes very frightening, and to really begin to reconstruct civilization means to really act in a powerful way. And power is the thing that women have been taught is a real taboo.

Judy Chicago