Barbara Kruger Quotes - Page 3

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• 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 ways that seem familiar but are different.

  Barbara Kruger

  Ideas, Space, Different

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• 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.

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  Art, Crazy, Mean

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• The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.

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  Degrees, Pieces, World

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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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  Hard Work, Practice, Mind

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• Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.

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  Photography, Magic, Hobbies

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

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• 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 context of conventional selling space.

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  Space, Slave, Enough

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• 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

  Book, Artist, Thinking

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• You make history when you do business.

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  Barbara Kruger, Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, England) (1991). “We won't play nature to your culture”, ICA (London)

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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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  Political, Sound, Term

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• Love is something you fall into.

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  Fall, Love Is

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• 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.

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  Artist, Opportunity, Space

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• Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning. It is mean, gorgeous and ambitious, and definitely the last word for the next few seconds.

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  Fashion, Fun, Mean

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• The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.

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  Adventure, People, Focus

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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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  Morning, Sunday, Race

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• ... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the real at all. I don't want to get into jargon - let's just say that photography to me no longer pertains to the rhetoric of realism; it pertains more perhaps to the rhetoric of the unreal rather than the real or of course the hyperreal.

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  Photography, Real, Needs

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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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  Art, Practice, Two

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• Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

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  Art, Teaching, School

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• You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

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  Art, Voice, Village

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• 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.

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  Princess, Media, Insane

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• the art world has always been an unrelenting taste machine, but now flavors of the month have morphed into flavors of the minute. Again, all a reflection of a wider cultural condition. I mean, the art world is slow compared with the music and movie businesses.

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  Art, Mean, Reflection

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• I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

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  Thinking, Labels, Way

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• It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

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  Class, People, Support

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• The different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.

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  Teaching, Writing, Practice

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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 crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.

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  Moving, Thinking, Bucks

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• Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.

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  Art, Thinking, Honest

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