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All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.

Barbara 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!
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Art Ideas Light
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.
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Looks Mean Vocabulary
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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Add Artist Technology
the art world has always been an unrelenting taste machine, but now flavors of the month have morphed into flavors of the minute. Again, all a reflection of a wider cultural condition. I mean, the art world is slow compared with the music and movie businesses.
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Art Mean Reflection
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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Artist People Thinking
It’s good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can’t be personalized.
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Good Hard Mind Practice Time Work
I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure and laughter and to disrupt the dour certainties of pictures, property, and power.
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Laughter Side Want
It’s hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
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Class People Support
I’m trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
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Artist Ideas Trying
You make history when you do business.
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Business History Make
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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Art Mean Musical
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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Influence Profound Tvs
It’s a small world, but not if you have to clean it
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Clean Small World World
I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it’s the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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Battle People Thinking
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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Cities Country Culture Production
All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.
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All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.

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