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GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU’LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.

Barbara Kruger

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 think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
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Art Poor Rich Thinking
What I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition.
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Moments Recognition Trying
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It’s scary.
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Artist Gossip Scary
I have no complaints, except for the world.
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Complaints Except World
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?
BARBARA KRUGER

Art Eye Photo Way Word
I’m an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
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Artist Different Mean
Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I’m working in.
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Artist Rehabilitation Tactics
We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
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Language Pieces Stealing
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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Artist Book Thinking
Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
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Believe Lying World
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 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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Artist Girl Gun Instead Pull
Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning. It is mean, gorgeous and ambitious, and definitely the last word for the next few seconds.
BARBARA KRUGER

Fashion Fun Mean
Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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Art Practice Two
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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Bucks Moving Thinking

GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU’LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.

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