You want it, you buy it, you forget it.
BARBARA KRUGERThe reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can’t focus on longer narratives now – even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it’s an adventure film.
More Barbara Kruger Quotes
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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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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 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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I’ve always been very tied to language.
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Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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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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Doubt tempers belief with sanity.
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the art world has always been an unrelenting taste machine, but now flavors of the month have morphed into flavors of the minute. Again, all a reflection of a wider cultural condition. I mean, the art world is slow compared with the music and movie businesses.
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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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Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!
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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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Love is something you fall into.
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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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Teaching at university isn’t like teaching in an art school.
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