I own works by women artists; it is hard for me to see, literally to see, how women and men differ in the quality of their work. Why are women artists less known and less admired?


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I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to re...
AGNES SMEDLEY
There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they ...
AGNES SMEDLEY
No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is ...
AGNES SMEDLEY
What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them...
AGNES SMEDLEY
In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked w...
AGNES SMEDLEY
Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and...
AGNES SMEDLEY
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk ...
AGNES REPPLIER
I have a difficult relationship with jazz. My parents really love it, and I went to a school where j...
AGNES OBEL
I don't have a daily routine at all.
AGNES OBEL
I love the conversation between film and music.
AGNES OBEL
When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio...
AGNES OBEL
Everything that has a spare piano is 'like Satie' and everything with strings is 'filmic...
AGNES OBEL
When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.
AGNES OBEL
It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to ...
AGNES OBEL
With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting some...
AGNES OBEL
I used to get very nervous before a concert. It's okay when you are in a band. You can kind of d...
AGNES OBEL
I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.
AGNES OBEL
I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't...
AGNES OBEL
I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.
AGNES OBEL
My parents were very relaxed about music.
AGNES OBEL
The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.
AGNES OBEL
What I discovered in Berlin was this immense freedom because it felt like you could start any kind o...
AGNES OBEL
Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something ...
AGNES OBEL
The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You...
AGNES OBEL
I've heard from other artists that people are a little bit more reserved in Northern Europe, whi...
AGNES OBEL
I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't r...
AGNES OBEL
I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.
AGNES OBEL
People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in th...
AGNES MARTIN
I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment.
AGNES MARTIN