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Barbara Kruger

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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Art Money Shoes Talks
Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.
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Careers Rumor Tragedy
All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.
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Illustration Stereotype Violence
I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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Artist Figure World
GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU’LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.
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Brain Giving Hair
Love is something you fall into.
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Fall Love Something
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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Better Knowing Mixing Thinking
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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Add Artist Technology
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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Art Eye Photo Way Word
I’m trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe next to money, but in fact they both motor each other.
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Death Issues Life Power
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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Insane Media Princess
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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Belief Differences Doubt
Warhol’s images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn’t think about him a hell of a lot.
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Art Honest Thinking
What I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition.
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Moments Recognition Trying
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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Artist Culture Irony
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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Feelings Thinking Understanding

You make history when you do business.

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