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