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 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
It's really hard for me to use the term 'history' in the singular, because it suggests a reductivist view of how moments… — 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
You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash,… — 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