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.
BARBARA KRUGERImages are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative.
More Barbara Kruger Quotes
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I just say I’m an artist who works with pictures and words.
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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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I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
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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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Love is something you fall into.
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Doubt tempers belief with sanity.
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I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
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Teaching at university isn’t like teaching in an art school.
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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.
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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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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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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’m an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
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I’m trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe next to money, but in fact they both motor each other.
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All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.
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