It’s hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
BARBARA KRUGERIt’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.
More Barbara Kruger Quotes
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The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.
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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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It’s a small world, but not if you have to clean it
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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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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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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they’re my terms, and they’re not.
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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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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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What I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition.
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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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I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
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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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I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.
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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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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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