I don’t necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It’s just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
BARBARA KRUGERArchitecture 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.
More Barbara Kruger Quotes
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I’ve always been very tied to language.
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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.
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You make history when you do business.
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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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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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Teaching at university isn’t like teaching in an art school.
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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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I have no complaints, except for the world.
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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 living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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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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You want it, you buy it, you forget it.
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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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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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I just say I’m an artist who works with pictures and words.
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