Barbara Kruger quotes - page 2

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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers. View quote
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If you can't feel it, it must be real. View quote
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When I hear the word Culture I take out my checkbook. View quote
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I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle. View quote
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Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in. View quote
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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. View quote
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There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book. View quote
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. (Barbara Kruger)
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too. View quote
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Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives. View quote
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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. View quote
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I've always been very tied to language. View quote
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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. (Barbara Kruger)
Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school. View quote
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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