Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I’m working in.
BARBARA KRUGERAs with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up.
More Barbara Kruger Quotes
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I’m living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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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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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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You want it, you buy it, you forget it.
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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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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.
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All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.
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Teaching at university isn’t like teaching in an art school.
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As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up.
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I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
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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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Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.
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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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I’ve always thought that it’s good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that’s how consensus is constructed.
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Doubt tempers belief with sanity.
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