I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual,… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements. — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
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… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
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… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed. — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I like suggesting that ‘we are slaves to the objects around us,’ that ‘plenty should be enough,’ or that the ‘buyer should beware,’ within… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear. — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in. — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
