You want it, you buy it, you forget it.
BARBARA KRUGERI think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
More Barbara Kruger Quotes
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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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All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.
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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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Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.
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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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Doubt tempers belief with sanity.
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Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.
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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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What I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition.
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author’s rendition of events and circumstances.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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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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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It’s scary.
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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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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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