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Isabel Bishop Quotes

I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.

I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.

Isabel Bishop
Artist, Want, Wanted
"The "New Woman" Revised : Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street". Book by by Ellen Wiley Todd, Ch. 7, p. 273, 1992.

I hope my work is recognizable as being by a woman, though I certainly would never deliberately make it feminine in any way, in subject or treatment. But if I speak in a voice which is my own, it's bound to be the voice of a woman.

Isabel Bishop
Voice, Way, Speak
Helen Yglesias, Isabel Bishop (1989). “Isabel Bishop”, Rizzoli International Publications

Traditionally the Nude was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life, as Heroic or Ideal... The nude is not a 'genre' subject.

Isabel Bishop
Beauty, Larger Than Life, Heroic

The nude, if you tackle it, is a very fascinating subject, especially for a woman.

Isabel Bishop
Beauty, Subjects, Fascinating

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