Quotes by Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger

American artist

Alive from: 1945-

Category: Artists

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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

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  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.