I have no complaints, except for the world.
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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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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I think what I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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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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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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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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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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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?
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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Doubt tempers belief with sanity.
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the art world has always been an unrelenting taste machine, but now flavors of the month have morphed into flavors of the minute. Again, all a reflection of a wider cultural condition. I mean, the art world is slow compared with the music and movie businesses.
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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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I’m living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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It’s a small world, but not if you have to clean it
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Memory is your image of perfection.
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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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