Miriam Schapiro quotes

Miriam Schapiro quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke in a secret language, bore a covert imagery. When we read these images in needlework, in paintings, in quilts, rugs and scrapbooks, we sometimes find a cry for help, sometimes an allusion to a secret political alignment, sometimes a moving symbol about the relationships between men and women.”
-- Miriam Schapiro

Source : Miriam Schapiro (1985). “Miriam Schapiro: Femmages, 1971-1985 : Brentwood Gallery, 1221 South Brentwood Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63117 : May 17-June 30, 1985”

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“I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.”
-- Miriam Schapiro

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“If you were to survey celebrated women, with every step toward real success there came a baby.”
-- Miriam Schapiro

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“When I look back on the years of excessive self-doubt, I wonder how I was able to make my paintings. In part, I managed to paint because I had a desire, as strong as the desire for food and sex, to push through, to make an image that signified.”
-- Miriam Schapiro

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