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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

Barbara Kruger

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.
BARBARA KRUGER

Different Ideas Space
Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.
BARBARA KRUGER

Made Real Technology
I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
BARBARA KRUGER

Artist Figure World
I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It’s the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
BARBARA KRUGER

Artist Girl Gun Instead Pull
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.
BARBARA KRUGER

Practice Teaching Writing
If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they’re my terms, and they’re not.
BARBARA KRUGER

Political Sound Term
I’m an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
BARBARA KRUGER

Artist Different Mean
It’s a small world, but not if you have to clean it
BARBARA KRUGER

Clean Small World World
What I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition.
BARBARA KRUGER

Moments Recognition Trying
Doubt tempers belief with sanity.
BARBARA KRUGER

Belief Doubt Sanity
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 KRUGER

Pictures Want Who Word
GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU’LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.
BARBARA KRUGER

Brain Giving Hair
I have no complaints, except for the world.
BARBARA KRUGER

Complaints Except World
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
BARBARA KRUGER

Artist Culture Irony
Memory is your image of perfection.
BARBARA KRUGER

Memories Perfection
I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
BARBARA KRUGER

Art Poor Rich Thinking

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

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