I just say I’m an artist who works with pictures and words.
BARBARA KRUGER
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Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I’m working in.
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I just say I’m an artist who works with pictures and words.
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We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
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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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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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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.
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I don’t necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It’s just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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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.
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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.
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Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I’m working in.
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I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
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Doubt tempers belief with sanity.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It’s scary.
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I’m living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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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.
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It’s a small world, but not if you have to clean 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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