I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
BARBARA KRUGER
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.
More Barbara Kruger Quotes
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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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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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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I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
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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.
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I’m trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
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I have no complaints, except for the world.
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I worked with someone else’s photos; I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. Why couldn’t that be my art?
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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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All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.
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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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I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.
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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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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.
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