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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.


Barbara Lee

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BARBARA KRUGER I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists ...
BARBARA KRUGER It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practi...
BARBARA KRUGER Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages...
BARBARA KRUGER I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what...
BARBARA KRUGER Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm intere...
BARBARA KRUGER I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are cons...
BARBARA KRUGER I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different...
BARBARA KRUGER Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs ...
BARBARA KRUGER Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to sur...
BARBARA KRUGER I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, ins...
BARBARA KRUGER Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality whic...
BARBARA KRUGER Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, a...
BARBARA KRUGER I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of mome...
BARBARA KRUGER It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
BARBARA KRUGER I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning new...
BARBARA KRUGER I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
BARBARA KRUGER Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
BARBARA KRUGER Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated...
BARBARA KRUGER I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.
BARBARA KRUGER I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation ...
BARBARA KRUGER I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
BARBARA KRUGER