I just say I’m an artist who works with pictures and words.
BARBARA KRUGERTeaching at university isn’t like teaching in an art school.
More Barbara Kruger Quotes
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You make history when you do business.
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I have frequently said, and I will repeat again, in the manner of any well-meaning seriality, that I’m interested in mixing the ingratiation of wishful thinking with the criticality of knowing better.
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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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Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I’m working in.
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I’m living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author’s rendition of events and circumstances.
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I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.
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GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU’LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.
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Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.
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Warhol’s images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn’t think about him a hell of a lot.
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I don’t necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It’s just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they’re my terms, and they’re not.
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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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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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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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