The different aspects of my activity, whether it’s writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don’t make any separation in terms of those practices.
BARBARA KRUGERI want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
More Barbara Kruger Quotes
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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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We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
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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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I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
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It’s a small world, but not if you have to clean it
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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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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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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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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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I have no complaints, except for the world.
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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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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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All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.
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You make history when you do business.
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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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