Barbara Kruger Quotes

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• I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call…
• I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
• Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money,…
• I have no complaints, except for the world.
• 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…
• As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of…
• I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I…
• 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…
• I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively…
• 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…
• I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues…
• 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…
• If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national…
• Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in…
• There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our…
• All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype,
• But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind…
• GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.
• It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.
• I like suggesting that ‘we are slaves to the objects around us,’ that ‘plenty should be enough,’ or that the ‘buyer should beware,’ within the…

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