“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.” KnowsKindBookMomentsLightHappensArtistStuffWhiteBuildingRecognitionWhite Light Author:Barbara Kruger
“I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But to me the real power of photography is based in death: the fact that somehow it can enliven that which is not there in a kind of stultifying frightened way, because it seems to me that part of one's life is made up of a constant confrontation with one's own death.” ThinkingWayKindMadeRealFactsSeemsLife IsPhotographyConstantPhotographFrightenedCompellingConfrontationReal PowerDuplicateExactitude Author:Barbara Kruger
“All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.” KindArtistTurnsScaryNarrativeGossipScarCrazinessCraziness Of Life 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
“I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.” ThinkingWayKindCertainLabelsArrangementsInstallation Author:Barbara Kruger
“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.” ThinkingTryingKindMomentsFeelingsUnderstandingRecognition 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.” LooksKindMeanDifferentEndsSometimesArtistStuffDetermineArtisticDifferent KindsSitePictures And Words 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
“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.” KindBeliefLeftDifferencesDoubtCourtDevicesAllegianceTricky Author:Barbara Kruger
