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The 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.

Barbara Kruger

Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.
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Made Real Technology
You want it, you buy it, you forget it.
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Buy Forget Want
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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Labels Thinking Way
The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.
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Ambition Art Understanding
All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.
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Illustration Stereotype Violence
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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Battle People Thinking
It’s hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
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Class People Support
I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure and laughter and to disrupt the dour certainties of pictures, property, and power.
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Laughter Side Want
We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
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Language Pieces Stealing
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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Artist Culture Irony
I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
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Art Poor Rich Thinking
I like suggesting that ‘we are slaves to the objects around us,’ that ‘plenty should be enough,’ or that the ‘buyer should beware,’ within the context of conventional selling space.
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Enough Slave Space
The 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.
BARBARA KRUGER

Adventure Focus People
There’s a moment of recognition. It’s that white-light kind of stuff that just “works.” I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it’s a movie, music, a building, a book.
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Artist Book Light
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
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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Pictures Want Who Word
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
Doubt tempers belief with sanity.
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Belief Doubt Sanity
I just say I’m an artist who works with pictures and words.
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Artist Pictures Words
I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
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Bucks Moving Thinking
I’m an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
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Artist Different Mean
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
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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Good Hard Mind Practice Time Work
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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Artist Opportunity Space
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
Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.
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Hobbies Magic Photography
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.
BARBARA KRUGER

Fashion Fun Mean

The 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.

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The 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.

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