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Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I've never reviewed her work, because I find nothing in it to get excited about no matter how hard I look.

— Jerry Saltz

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna.

— Michael Bolton

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?

— Agnes Gund

Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.

— Lita Ford

There are certainly some artists in New York that I would love to work with. One is Sarah Michelson.

— David Hallberg

I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.

— Rachel Kushner

Historically, the women who have been the great painters of the canon have very often have been the wives or daughters of supportive men. Like Artemisia, whose father was a very established painter. I will say that the two current contemporary artists I admire the most are women: Kara Walker and Swoon.

— Molly Crabapple

✗Opposing Perspectives

There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.

— Judy Chicago

With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner, are only fully embraced very late in their career.

— Siri Hustvedt

There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.

— Siouxsie Sioux

I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.

— Estelle Parsons