You make history when you do business.
BARBARA KRUGERI’ve always been very tied to language.
More Barbara Kruger Quotes
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It’s because I understand short attention spans.
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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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I’ve always been very tied to language.
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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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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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It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.
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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 hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
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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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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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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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Love is something you fall into.
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I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
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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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