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.
BARBARA KRUGERThings change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
More Barbara Kruger Quotes
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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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Doubt tempers belief with sanity.
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There’s a moment of recognition. It’s that white-light kind of stuff that just “works.” I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it’s a movie, music, a building, a book.
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It’s hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
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Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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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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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 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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Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I’m working in.
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Teaching at university isn’t like teaching in an art school.
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Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.
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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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Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.
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