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We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

Barbara Kruger

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
BARBARA KRUGER

Language Pieces Stealing
You make history when you do business.
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Business History Make
What I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition.
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Moments Recognition Trying
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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Death Issues Life Power
the art world has always been an unrelenting taste machine, but now flavors of the month have morphed into flavors of the minute. Again, all a reflection of a wider cultural condition. I mean, the art world is slow compared with the music and movie businesses.
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Art Mean Reflection
I’m trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
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Artist Ideas Trying
I have no complaints, except for the world.
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Complaints Except World
I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure and laughter and to disrupt the dour certainties of pictures, property, and power.
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Laughter Side Want
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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Artist Believe Media
The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can’t focus on longer narratives now – even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it’s an adventure film.
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Adventure Focus People
I worked with someone else’s photos; I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. Why couldn’t that be my art?
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Art Eye Photo Way Word
I think what I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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Feelings Thinking Understanding
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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Influence Profound Tvs
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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Add Artist Technology
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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Art Money Shoes Talks
Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.
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Made Real Technology

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