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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

#Doe #Attention #Way
“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
“All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype,”
-- Barbara Kruger

#Illustration #Violence #Stereotype
“Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.”
-- Barbara Kruger

#Artist #Culture #Irony
“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
“I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.”
-- Barbara Kruger

#Art #Thinking #Rich
“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
“Doubt tempers belief with sanity.”
-- Barbara Kruger

#Doubt #Belief #Sanity
“I've always been very tied to language.”
-- Barbara Kruger

#Language
“If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.”
-- Barbara Kruger

#Political #Sound #Term
“As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the ***** of sentiment never let up.”
-- Barbara Kruger

#Princess #Media #Insane
“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

#Art #Practice #Two
“I have no complaints, except for the world.”
-- Barbara Kruger

#World #Complaints
“I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.”
-- Barbara Kruger

#Artist #Ideas #Trying
“It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.”
-- Barbara Kruger

#Class #People #Support
“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

#Artist #Thinking #People
“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

#Hard Work #Practice #Mind
“Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.”
-- Barbara Kruger

#Artist #Tactics #Rehabilitation
“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

#Thinking #Labels #Way
“I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.”
-- Barbara Kruger

#Artist #World #Figures
“I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.”
-- Barbara Kruger

#Artist #Pictures And Words
“It's a small world, but not if you have to clean it”
-- Barbara Kruger

#World #Small World
“You make history when you do business.”
-- Barbara Kruger
“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
“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.”
-- Barbara Kruger

#Art #Thinking #Honest
“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
“I remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand people's marginalization from what the art subculture is because if you haven't crashed the codes, and if you don't know what it is, you feel it's a conspiracy against your unintelligence. You feel it's fraud.”
-- Barbara Kruger

#Art #People #Remember
“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.”
-- Barbara Kruger

#Fashion #Fun #Mean
“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.”
-- Barbara Kruger

#Art #Mean #Reflection
“Love is something you fall into.”
-- Barbara Kruger

#Fall #Love Is

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