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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.

Barbara Kruger

What I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition.
BARBARA KRUGER

Moments Recognition Trying
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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Adventure Focus People
Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.
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Made Real Technology
Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.
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Hobbies Magic Photography
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
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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Artist Believe Media
I’m trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe next to money, but in fact they both motor each other.
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Death Issues Life Power
I have no complaints, except for the world.
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Complaints Except World
I’m trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
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Artist Ideas Trying
Doubt tempers belief with sanity.
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Belief Doubt Sanity
I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I’m not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don’t do it. I’m not crazy about categories.
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Art Crazy Mean
I’m living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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Buying Life Lifestyle
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 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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Pictures Want Who Word
Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.
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Belief Differences Doubt
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.
BARBARA KRUGER

Artist People Thinking

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