Joanna Russ Art Quotations

The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has created the "right" value--i.e., art.) Denial of Agency: She didn't write it. Pollution of Agency: She shouldn't have written it. Double Standard of Content: Yes, but look what she wrote about. False Categorizing: She is not really she [an artist] and it is not really it [serious, of the right genre, aesthetically sound, important, etc.] so how could "she" have written "it"? Or simply: Neither "she" nor "it" exists (simple exclusion).

Art is collective. Always, it has a tradition behind it.

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.