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.
BARBARA KRUGERI think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It’s the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
More Barbara Kruger Quotes
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I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
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I’m trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It’s scary.
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It’s a small world, but not if you have to clean it
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I’m living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It’s the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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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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You want it, you buy it, you forget it.
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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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The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.
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Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.
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All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.
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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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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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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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What I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition.
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I have no complaints, except for the world.
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But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women’s art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I’m resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.
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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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As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up.
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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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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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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’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 just say I’m an artist who works with pictures and words.
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