“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.” YearsLooksArtSelfAbleDesireStrongSexWonderDoubtPaintingPaintSelf-doubt Author:Miriam Schapiro
“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.” MenMadeSometimesHelpingMovingFormPoliticalLanguageWomenSecretCryObjectsPaintingMen And WomenSavedSymbolsSpokesBoresImageryNourishmentAlignmentAllusionCovertQuiltsRecycledLeftoversNeedleworkHandicrafts Book:Miriam Schapiro: Femmages, 1971-1985 : Brentwood Gallery, 1221 South Brentwood Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63117 : May 17-June 30, 1985 Source: Miriam Schapiro: Femmages, 1971-1985 : Brentwood Gallery, 1221 South Brentwood Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63117 : May 17-June 30, 1985
