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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.

Barbara Kruger

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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Better Knowing Mixing Thinking
You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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Art Village Voice
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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Art Ideas Light
We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
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Language Pieces Stealing
GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU’LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.
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Brain Giving Hair
I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it’s the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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Battle People Thinking
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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Morning Race Sunday
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
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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Crazy Insanity Looks
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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Art Honest Thinking
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
I have no complaints, except for the world.
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Complaints Except World
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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Cities Country Culture Production
It’s really hard for me to use the term ‘history’ in the singular, because it suggests a reductivist view of how moments and events congeal and reflect the passage of time. I’d rather stick to the pluralness of ‘histories’ in order to suggest the simultaneity, the parallel forces at work, which produce lived experience.
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History Order Views
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
I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
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Art Poor Rich Thinking

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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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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