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I think what I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Kruger Quote - I don’t necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It’s just a label for certain kinds of arrangements. Download This Image

    I don’t necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It’s just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

    BARBARA KRUGER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Kruger Quote - I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I’m not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don’t do it. I’m not crazy about categories.

    I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I’m not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don’t do it. I’m not crazy about categories.

    BARBARA KRUGER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Kruger Quote - But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women’s art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I’m resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist. Download This Image

    But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women’s art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I’m resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

    BARBARA KRUGER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Kruger Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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 KRUGER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Kruger Quote - I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor. Download This Image

    I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.

    BARBARA KRUGER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Kruger Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Kruger Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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 KRUGER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Kruger Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BARBARA KRUGER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Kruger Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BARBARA KRUGER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Kruger Quote - I’ve always been very tied to language. Download This Image

    I’ve always been very tied to language.

    BARBARA KRUGER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Kruger Quote - Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes. Download This Image

    Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

    BARBARA KRUGER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Kruger Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BARBARA KRUGER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Kruger Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BARBARA KRUGER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Kruger Quote - Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning. It is mean, gorgeous and ambitious, and definitely the last word for the next few seconds. Download This Image

    Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning. It is mean, gorgeous and ambitious, and definitely the last word for the next few seconds.

    BARBARA KRUGER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Kruger Quote - I think what I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience. Download This Image

    I think what I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

    BARBARA KRUGER
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Barbara Kruger Quote - I’d always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race. Download This Image

    I’d always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

    BARBARA KRUGER