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Barbara Kruger - From the Activity category:
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)
Barbara Kruger - From the Architecture category:
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)
Barbara Kruger - From the Art category:
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)
Barbara Kruger - From the Artists category:
I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. (Barbara Kruger)
Barbara Kruger - From the Change category:
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)
Barbara Kruger - From the Commerce category:
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)
Barbara Kruger - From the Contemporary Art category:
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)
Barbara Kruger - From the Criticism category:
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)
Barbara Kruger - From the Culture category:
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not. (Barbara Kruger)
Barbara Kruger - From the Culture category:
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. You can make good art anywhere. But these two towns have an incredible density of cultural producers: people who migrate to them in order to define themselves through their work. (Barbara Kruger)
Barbara Kruger - From the Design category:
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)
Barbara Kruger - From the Difficulty category:
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)
Barbara Kruger - From the Doubt category:
Doubt tempers belief with sanity. (Barbara Kruger)
Barbara Kruger - From the Emotion category:
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)
Barbara Kruger - From the Excellence category:
There are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results. (Barbara Kruger)
Barbara Kruger - From the Experience category:
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)
Barbara Kruger - From the Ideas category:
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed. (Barbara Kruger)
Barbara Kruger - From the Influence category:
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)
Barbara Kruger - From the Language category:
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans. (Barbara Kruger)
Barbara Kruger - From the Language category:
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)
Barbara Kruger - From the Language category:
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)
Barbara Kruger - From the Life category:
I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle. (Barbara Kruger)
Barbara Kruger - From the Love category:
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. (Barbara Kruger)
Barbara Kruger - From the Masters category:
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)
Barbara Kruger - From the Meaning category:
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)
Barbara Kruger - From the Mediums category:
Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in. (Barbara Kruger)
Barbara Kruger - From the Power category:
I'm trying to engage issues of power and sexuality and money and life and death and power. Power is the most free-flowing element in society, maybe next to money, but in fact they both motor each other. (Barbara Kruger)
Barbara Kruger - From the Recognition category:
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. (Barbara Kruger)
Barbara Kruger - From the Recognition category:
Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes. (Barbara Kruger)
Barbara Kruger - From the Searching category:
I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work. (Barbara Kruger)
Barbara Kruger - From the Spectator category:
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)
Barbara Kruger - From the Subject category:
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)
Barbara Kruger - From the Success category:
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)
Barbara Kruger - From the Work category:
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)
Barbara Kruger - From the Writing category:
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)
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