You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice. Barbara Kruger More Quotes by Barbara Kruger More Quotes From Barbara Kruger I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor. Barbara Kruger rich-or-poor art thinking 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 different artist mean Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud! Barbara Kruger light ideas art Memory is your image of perfection. Barbara Kruger perfection memories Doubt tempers belief with sanity. Barbara Kruger sanity belief doubt All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype. Barbara Kruger illustration stereotype violence I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Barbara Kruger pictures-and-words artist I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But to me the real power of photography is based in death: the fact that somehow it can enliven that which is not there in a kind of stultifying frightened way, because it seems to me that part of one's life is made up of a constant confrontation with one's own death. Barbara Kruger photography real thinking 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 degrees pieces world We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual. Barbara Kruger stealing pieces language I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work. Barbara Kruger figures artist world Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in. Barbara Kruger rehabilitation tactics artist I have frequently said, and I will repeat again, in the manner of any well-meaning seriality, that I'm interested in mixing the ingratiation of wishful thinking with the criticality of knowing better. Barbara Kruger knowing-better mixing thinking Belief is tricky because left to its own devices, it can court a kind of surety, an unquestioning allegiance that fears doubt and destroys difference. Barbara Kruger differences belief doubt You make history when you do business. Barbara Kruger 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 remember people art I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure and laughter and to disrupt the dour certainties of pictures, property, and power. Barbara Kruger laughter sides want 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. Barbara Kruger princess media insane If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not. Barbara Kruger term political sound 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. Barbara Kruger space artist opportunity
