Author: Barbara Kruger

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

- Barbara Kruger

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.

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

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

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

- 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.

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

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.

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

Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

- Barbara Kruger

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.

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

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

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

- Barbara Kruger

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