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.
BARBARA KRUGERIt’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.
More Barbara Kruger Quotes
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All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.
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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.
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Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.
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You make history when you do business.
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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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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.
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Love is something you fall into.
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It’s a small world, but not if you have to clean it
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Look, we’re all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I’ve chosen to make my work about that insanity.
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Teaching at university isn’t like teaching in an art school.
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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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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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I’m trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
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I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
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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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