List of Barbara Kruger Quotes

What Makes The Production Of My Work So Expensive? The Whole Installation Thing - The Construction, The Objects, The Technology. It Really Adds Up.

It Entered The Visual Vocabulary Of Photographers, Painters And Sculptors And Focused On What Pictures And Words Look Like And What They Can Mean.

It's Hard For Me To Understand How Working-class People Support Themselves.

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.

I Don't Necessarily Think That Installation Is The Only Way To Go. It's Just A Label For Certain Kinds Of Arrangements.

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.

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.

... The Thing That's Happening Today Vis-á-vis Computer Imaging, Vis-á-vis Alteration, Is That It No Longer Needs To Be Based On The Real At All. I Don't Want To Get Into Jargon - Let's Just Say That Photography To Me No Longer Pertains To The Rhetoric Of Realism; It Pertains More Perhaps To The Rhetoric Of The Unreal Rather Than The Real Or Of Course The Hyperreal.

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.

I Think 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.

The Art World Has Always Been An Unrelenting Taste Machine, But Now Flavors Of The Month Have Morphed Into Flavors Of The Minute. Again, All A Reflection Of A Wider Cultural Condition. I Mean, The Art World Is Slow Compared With The Music And Movie Businesses.

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.