Barbara Kruger Quotes

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• I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.

  Barbara Kruger

  Want, Who We Are, Pictures And Words

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• I see my work as a series of attempts to ruin certain representations and to welcome a female spectator into the audience of men. If this work is considered incorrect, all the better, for my attempts aim to undermine that singular pontificating male voice-over which correctly instructs our pleasures and histories or lack of them.

  Barbara Kruger

  Men, Voice, Males

  Barbara Kruger (1994). “Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances”, p.220, MIT Press

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• 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

  Art, Mean, Musical

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• Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

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  Lying, Believe, World

  Barbara Kruger (1994). “Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances”, p.4, MIT Press

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• GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.

  Barbara Kruger

  Hair, Giving, Brain

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• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Thinking, Trying

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• I have no complaints, except for the world.

  Barbara Kruger

  World, Complaints

  Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute, February 1, 2005.

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• I'm trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe next to money, but in fact they both motor each other.

  Barbara Kruger

  Power, Issues, Life And Death

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• 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

  Thinking, Understanding, Feelings

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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.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Expression, Doe

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• You want it, you buy it, you forget it.

  Barbara Kruger

  Want, Forget, Forget It

  Barbara Kruger, Veit Görner, Hilke Wagner, Kestner-Gesellschaft (2006). “Barbara Kruger: desire exists where pleasure is absent”, Kerber Verlag

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• But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

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  Art, Feminist, Political

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• Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Shoes, Money Talks

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• I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.

  Barbara Kruger

  Buying, Lifestyle, Living My Life

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• 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

  Girl, Artist, Gun

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• I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Thinking, Rich Or Poor

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• All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.

  Barbara Kruger

  Illustration, Violence, Stereotype

  Barbara Kruger (1994). “Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances”, p.223, MIT Press

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• It's a small world, but not if you have to clean it

  Barbara Kruger

  World, Clean, Small World

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• 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

  Artist, Trying, Degrees

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• What I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition.

  Barbara Kruger

  Trying, Recognition, Moments

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• 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, and as fugitive as fraud!

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Ideas, Light

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• Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.

  Barbara Kruger

  Crazy, Insanity, Looks

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• I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

  Barbara Kruger

  Artist, World, Figures

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• Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

  Barbara Kruger

  Drag, Surround Yourself, Delusion

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• Memory is your image of perfection.

  Barbara Kruger

  Memories, Perfection

  Love For Sale - The Words and Pictures of Barbara Kruger, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia, October 17 - November 24 1996.

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