Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
BARBARA KRUGER
BARBARA KRUGER
Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger75 quotes“Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.”
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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.
Barbara KrugerBarbara Kruger I just say I’m an artist who works with pictures and words.
Barbara KrugerBarbara Kruger 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.
Barbara KrugerBarbara Kruger 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.
Barbara KrugerBarbara Kruger 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.
Barbara KrugerBarbara Kruger Teaching at university isn’t like teaching in an art school.
Barbara KrugerBarbara Kruger 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.
Barbara KrugerBarbara Kruger I like suggesting that ‘we are slaves to the objects around us,’ that ‘plenty should be enough,’ or that the ‘buyer should beware,’ within the context of conventional selling space.
Barbara KrugerBarbara Kruger 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.
Barbara KrugerBarbara Kruger 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.
Barbara KrugerBarbara Kruger Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!
Barbara KrugerBarbara Kruger I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.
Barbara KrugerBarbara Kruger 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.
Barbara KrugerBarbara Kruger We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
Barbara KrugerBarbara Kruger I’m living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
Barbara KrugerBarbara Kruger 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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