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.
BARBARA KRUGERI 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.
More Barbara Kruger Quotes
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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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Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference.
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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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It’s hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
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Teaching at university isn’t like teaching in an art school.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU’LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.
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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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You make history when you do business.
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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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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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I’m living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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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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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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Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.
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