Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning. It is mean, gorgeous and ambitious, and definitely the last word for the next few seconds.
BARBARA KRUGERI’m trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
More Barbara Kruger Quotes
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The different aspects of my activity, whether it’s writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don’t make any separation in terms of those practices.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture – not only national culture but global culture.
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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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What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing – the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I’m trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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Love is something you fall into.
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I’ve always been very tied to language.
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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 think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
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I have no complaints, except for the world.
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We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It’s scary.
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I’m living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.
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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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