Quotes by Barbara Kruger
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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 lives.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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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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Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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I have no complaints, except for the world.
Source: Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute -
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 of power, control, sexuality and race.
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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 living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
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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.
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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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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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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 relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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