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I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.

Barbara Kruger

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing – the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.
BARBARA KRUGER

Add Artist Technology
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
Memory is your image of perfection.
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Memories Perfection
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
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
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
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
Warhol’s images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn’t think about him a hell of a lot.
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Art Honest Thinking
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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Artist Girl Gun Instead Pull
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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Crazy Insanity Looks
You make history when you do business.
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Business History Make
Love is something you fall into.
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Fall Love Something
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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Art Mean Musical
I have no complaints, except for the world.
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Complaints Except World
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
I just say I’m an artist who works with pictures and words.
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Artist Pictures Words

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