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Barbara Kruger, born on January 26, 1945, is a renowned artist known for her strong visual style and critical social and political messages in her work.

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“I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.”

Thinking Art Poor Rich Rich Or Poor Pictures And Words

Author: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!”

Art Ideas Light Sorrow Art Is Heavy Fraud Breeze Fugitive

Author:Barbara Kruger

“I have no complaints, except for the world.”

World Complaints

Author:Barbara Kruger

“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.”

Way Art Two Artist Levels Practice Design Regard Visuals Formal Design Work

Author:Barbara Kruger

“As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up.”

Moments Media Insane Sentiments Princess Crash Sentimental Feeding Pornography Frenzy

Author:Barbara Kruger

“I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Mean Doe Art Artist Term Crazy Art Is Uncomfortable Not Sure Categories Public Art

Author:Barbara Kruger

“I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.”

Looks Kind Mean Different Ends Sometimes Artist Stuff Determine Artistic Different Kinds Site Pictures And Words

Author:Barbara Kruger

“I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.”

People Want Artist Opportunity Space Attention Window Like Me Attention Span Window Of Opportunity Short Attention Spans

Author:Barbara Kruger

“I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.”

Thinking Should Book Film Artist Events Circumstances Statements Biographies History Books

Author: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.”

Shows Felt Race Morning Issues Tvs News Sexuality Newspapers Sunday Junkie Sunday Morning

Author:Barbara Kruger

“I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.”

Ifs Believe Artist Watches Media News Consensus

Author:Barbara Kruger

“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.”

Ifs Culture Cities New York Productions Los Angeles Consumption American Cities National Culture

Author: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.”

World Way Ideas Different Seems Space Right Now Messages Familiar Things Change

Author: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.”

Moments Our Lives Influence Tvs Profound

Author:Barbara Kruger

“All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.”

Violence Stereotype Pathetic Illustration

Book:Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances

Source: Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances

“But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. 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.”

Kind Art Political Certain Feminist Categories Closing Closing Down Political Art

Author:Barbara Kruger

“GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.”

Giving Attention Brain Hair Thousand Better Off

Author: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.”

Looks Mean Photographer Focused Painter Visuals Vocabulary Sculptors Pictures And Words

Author:Barbara Kruger

“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.”

Should Enough Space Objects Slave Selling Plenty Conventional Suggesting Buyers

Author: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.”

Kind Belief Left Differences Doubt Court Devices Allegiance Tricky

Author:Barbara Kruger

“Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.”

World Believe Has Beens Lying Seeing Crisis Notion Photograph

Book:Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances

Source: Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances

“The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.”

Art Understanding Pleasure Essentials Ambition Importance Invention Classroom Examined Life

Author: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.”

Want Ability Determine Who We Are Pictures And Words

Author:Barbara Kruger

“It's a small world, but not if you have to clean it”

Ifs World Clean Small World

Author:Barbara Kruger

“You make history when you do business.”

Book:We won't play nature to your culture

Source: We won't play nature to your culture

“Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.”

Thinking Art Made Artist Hell Honest Backgrounds Being Honest Warhol Commercial Art

Author:Barbara Kruger

“Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.”

Art Dies Shoes Determine Money Talks

Author:Barbara Kruger

“I remember going into galleries and seeing this thing called conceptual art, and I understand people’s marginalization from what the art subculture is because if you haven’t crashed the codes, and if you don’t know what it is, you feel it’s a conspiracy against your unintelligence. You feel it’s fraud.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Art Remember Seeing Havens Code Fraud Conspiracy Gallery Subculture Marginalization Conceptual Art

Author:Barbara Kruger

“Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.”

Ifs Want Firsts Moving Night Space Pleasure Architecture Visuals First Love Constructs Day And Night

Author:Barbara Kruger

“What I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition.”

Trying Moments Recognition

Author:Barbara Kruger

About the Author

Born: January 26, 1945
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 80

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