Warhol’s images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn’t think about him a hell of a lot.
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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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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Teaching at university isn’t like teaching in an art school.
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You want it, you buy it, you forget it.
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I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
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Love is something you fall into.
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I’m trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
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I just say I’m an artist who works with pictures and words.
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You make history when you do business.
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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 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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I’ve always been very tied to language.
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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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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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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 had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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