I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.
BARBARA KRUGERI think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
More Barbara Kruger Quotes
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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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All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.
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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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I just say I’m an artist who works with pictures and words.
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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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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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Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives.
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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’ve always thought that it’s good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that’s how consensus is constructed.
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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 think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I’m trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
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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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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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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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