It’s a small world, but not if you have to clean it
BARBARA KRUGERYou make history when you do business.
More Barbara Kruger Quotes
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It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.
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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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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It’s scary.
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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.
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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.
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it’s the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they’re my terms, and they’re not.
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Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.
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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.
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We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
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Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
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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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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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I’ve always been very tied to language.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It’s because I understand short attention spans.
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