Carolee Schneemann

"The art audience is very receptive to what I do. It's a mutual influence."

"My work became a bridge that had to be crossed by young feminists working with their bodies."

"The female nude is part of a revered tradition, although she is not to take authority over depictions of her nudity. She is just to be available."

"I was always discouraged,” she says. “Even when I had a fellowship for painting, some of my teachers were very hostile. ‘You’re taking this too seriously. You’re only a girl. Don’t set your heart on a…"

"I never thought I was shocking,” she says. “I say this all the time and it sounds disingenuous, but I always thought, ‘This is something they need. My culture is going to recognize it’s missing someth…"

"I take the position that I do not ask anyone else to do what I myself would not do and using myself as subject . . . as material want to displace the power and separation of the artist from what's mad…"