Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear. Barbara Kruger More Quotes by Barbara Kruger More Quotes From Barbara Kruger 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 I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me. Barbara Kruger battle people thinking Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative. Barbara Kruger technology real made Love is something you fall into. Barbara Kruger love-is fall 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 first-love night moving 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. Barbara Kruger crazy mean art 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 different space ideas All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. Barbara Kruger gossip scary artist I worked with someone else's photos; I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. Why couldn't that be my art? Barbara Kruger eye way art I've always been very tied to language. Barbara Kruger tied language 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 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 focus adventure people 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 influence tvs profound 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 labels way thinking 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. Barbara Kruger hobbies magic photography I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed. Barbara Kruger artist trying ideas ... 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. Barbara Kruger photography real needs 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 people thinking Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school. Barbara Kruger teaching art school 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 technology artist add
