Memory is your image of perfection.
BARBARA KRUGERIt’s hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
More Barbara Kruger Quotes
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I’ve always been very tied to language.
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It’s a small world, but not if you have to clean it
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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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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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Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I’m working in.
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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It’s the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
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We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
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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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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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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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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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What I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition.
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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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Doubt tempers belief with sanity.
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I have no complaints, except for the world.
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