“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.” WorldMeanArtMinutesConditionsMonthsTasteReflectionMachinesFlavorArt WorldMovie BusinessUnrelentingFlavor Of The Month Author:Barbara Kruger
“I worked with someone else's photos; I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. Why couldn't that be my art?” WayArtEyeWanted Author:Barbara Kruger
“Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.” KnowsWayDoeArtLanguageAttentionExpressionWorking ItDo You KnowManifestAttention SpanShort Attention Spans Author:Barbara Kruger
“I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.” WorldKindMeanArtMomentsArt IsFlowMusicalVisualsTransformingCommentaryObjectifying Author:Barbara Kruger
“Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.” ArtSchoolTeachingUniversityArt School Author:Barbara Kruger
“You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.” KnowsArtVoiceVillageOnly TimeWarholObituary Author:Barbara Kruger
“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.” ThinkingFeelsTryingArtStillsStoriesCertainSocialLevelsArt IsVariousTyrannyResistanceSiteSocial LifeSubjectivity Author:Barbara Kruger
“I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.” ThinkingArtPoorRichRich Or PoorPictures 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!” ArtIdeasLightSorrowArt IsHeavyFraudBreezeFugitive 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.” WayArtTwoArtistLevelsPracticeDesignRegardVisualsFormalDesign Work 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.” IfsThinkingFeelsMeanDoeArtArtistTermCrazyArt IsUncomfortableNot SureCategoriesPublic Art Author:Barbara Kruger
“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.” KindArtPoliticalCertainFeministCategoriesClosingClosing DownPolitical Art Author:Barbara Kruger
“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.” ArtUnderstandingPleasureEssentialsAmbitionImportanceInventionClassroomExamined Life Author:Barbara Kruger
“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.” ThinkingArtMadeArtistHellHonestBackgroundsBeing HonestWarholCommercial 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.” ArtDiesShoesDetermineMoney 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.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsArtRememberSeeingHavensCodeFraudConspiracyGallerySubcultureMarginalizationConceptual Art Author:Barbara Kruger
