“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
“Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning. It is mean, gorgeous and ambitious, and definitely the last word for the next few seconds.” MeanLastsNextFunFashionVanityFollySecondsAmbitiousDisguiseLast WordsCunningGorgeousInnuendo 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 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
“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
“It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.” LooksMeanPhotographerFocusedPainterVisualsVocabularySculptorsPictures And Words Author:Barbara Kruger