All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
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. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
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 sentiment never let up. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
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 American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
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 don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
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 and circumstances. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
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 crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
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 short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
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. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
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. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
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. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
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. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0
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. Barbara Kruger American Artist More Barbara Kruger Quotes 0