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Barbara Kruger Quotes

You want it, you buy it, you forget it Picture Quote #1

What I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Love is something you fall into Picture Quote #1

If you can’t feel it, it must be real Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I’m working in Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I’ve never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising Picture Quote #1

The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life, Picture Quote #1

Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I always say that I’m an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that 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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images of perfection for any number of clients. I could never do that. I’m my client. That’s the difference between an artist and a designer; it’s a client relationship Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture’s power to construct our days and nights Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It’s because I understand short attention spans Picture Quote #1

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I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor Picture Quote #1

You make history when you do business Picture Quote #1

It’s a small world, but not if you have to clean it Picture Quote #1

Doubt tempers belief with sanity Picture Quote #1

All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype Picture Quote #1

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not Picture Quote #1

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You want it, you buy it, you forget it (Barbara Kruger Quotes) What I’m trying to do is create moments of recognition (Barbara Kruger Quotes) 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 Quotes) Love is something you fall into (Barbara Kruger Quotes) If you can’t feel it, it must be real (Barbara Kruger Quotes) 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 Quotes) What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up (Barbara Kruger Quotes) 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 (Barbara Kruger Quotes) Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I’m working in (Barbara Kruger Quotes) 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 Quotes) There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives (Barbara Kruger Quotes) 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 (Barbara Kruger Quotes) I’ve never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising. (Barbara Kruger Quotes) The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life, (Barbara Kruger Quotes) Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection. (Barbara Kruger Quotes) 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 Quotes) I always say that I’m an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that 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. (Barbara Kruger Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images of perfection for any number of clients. I could never do that. I’m my client. That’s the difference between an artist and a designer; it’s a client relationship. (Barbara Kruger Quotes) 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 Quotes) Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture’s power to construct our days and nights. (Barbara Kruger Quotes) 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 Quotes) Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It’s because I understand short attention spans. (Barbara Kruger Quotes) I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor (Barbara Kruger Quotes) You make history when you do business (Barbara Kruger Quotes) It’s a small world, but not if you have to clean it (Barbara Kruger Quotes) Doubt tempers belief with sanity (Barbara Kruger Quotes) All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype (Barbara Kruger Quotes) Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not (Barbara Kruger Quotes)

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