GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU’LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.
BARBARA KRUGERI have no complaints, except for the world.
More Barbara Kruger Quotes
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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Memory is your image of perfection.
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Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
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What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing – the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.
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Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!
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I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
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I have no complaints, except for the world.
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I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.
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It’s good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can’t be personalized.
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I’m an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
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Look, we’re all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I’ve chosen to make my work about that insanity.
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Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I’m working in.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture – not only national culture but global culture.
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Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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I’ve always been very tied to language.
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I’ve always thought that it’s good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that’s how consensus is constructed.
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I’d always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.
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Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning. It is mean, gorgeous and ambitious, and definitely the last word for the next few seconds.
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Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me… the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture’s power to construct our days and nights.
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Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.
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Love is something you fall into.
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I’m trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe next to money, but in fact they both motor each other.
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I’m living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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It’s hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
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Doubt tempers belief with sanity.
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