I just say I’m an artist who works with pictures and words.
BARBARA KRUGERIf most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture – not only national culture but global culture.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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Teaching at university isn’t like teaching in an art school.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture – not only national culture but global culture.
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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 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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We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
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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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The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.
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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 think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
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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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What I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition.
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Love is something you fall into.
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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 have frequently said, and I will repeat again, in the manner of any well-meaning seriality, that I’m interested in mixing the ingratiation of wishful thinking with the criticality of knowing better.
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