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.
BARBARA KRUGERIt’s a small world, but not if you have to clean it
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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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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Doubt tempers belief with sanity.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I’m working in.
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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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I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.
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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’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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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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Architecture 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.
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I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
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Look, we’re all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I’ve chosen to make my work about that insanity.
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