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Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in. — Barbara Kruger

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

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

You want it, you buy it, you forget it. — 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

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual. — Barbara Kruger

Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear. — Barbara Kruger

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

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not. — Barbara Kruger

GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF. — Barbara Kruger

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans. — Barbara Kruger

Memory is your image of perfection. — Barbara Kruger

Your comfort is my silence. — Barbara Kruger

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

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed. — Barbara Kruger

All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype, — Barbara Kruger

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

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. — 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

You make history when you do business. — Barbara Kruger

Love is something you fall into. — Barbara Kruger

Doubt tempers belief with sanity. — Barbara Kruger

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school. — Barbara Kruger

Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs of our social lives. — Barbara Kruger

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

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. — Barbara Kruger

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

I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work. — Barbara Kruger

I've always been very tied to language. — Barbara Kruger

I have no complaints, except for the world. — Barbara Kruger

I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle. — Barbara Kruger

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

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

It's a small world, but not if you have to clean it — Barbara Kruger

I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor. — Barbara Kruger

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

Images are made palpable, ironed flat by technology and, in turn, dictate the seemingly real through the representative. — Barbara Kruger

It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean. — Barbara Kruger

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not. — Barbara Kruger

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves. — Barbara Kruger

What I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition ... — Barbara Kruger