Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Isabel Bishop

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American painter Isabel Bishop.

Last updated on October 10, 2024.

Isabel Bishop was an American painter and graphic artist. Bishop studied under Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League of New York, where she would later become an instructor. She was most notable for her scenes of everyday life in Manhattan, as a member of the loosely-defined ‘Fourteenth Street School’ of artists, grouped in that precinct. Union Square features prominently in her work, which mainly depicts female figures. Bishop’s paintings won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, among other distinctions.

American - Painter | March 3, 1902 - February 19, 1988

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I didn't want to be a woman artist. I just wanted to be an artist.

Isabel Bishop

I hope my work is recognizable as being by a woman, though I certainly would never deliberately make it feminine in any way, in subject or treatment. But if I speak in a voice which is my own, it's bound to be the voice of a woman.

Isabel Bishop

The nude, if you tackle it, is a very fascinating subject, especially for a woman.

Isabel Bishop

Traditionally the Nude was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life, as Heroic or Ideal... The nude is not a 'genre' subject.

Isabel Bishop