Barbara Kruger Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.”

“I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.”

“I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.”

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

“I like suggesting that 'we are slaves to the objects around us,' that 'plenty should be enough,' or that the 'buyer should beware,' within the context of conventional selling space.”

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

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

“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.”

“I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.”