“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
“It's really hard for me to use the term 'history' in the singular, because it suggests a reductivist view of how moments and events congeal and reflect the passage of time. I'd rather stick to the pluralness of 'histories' in order to suggest the simultaneity, the parallel forces at work, which produce lived experience.” HardMomentsUseOrderForceTermViewsHistoryEventsProduceSticksPassagesParallelsPassage Of Time 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 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
“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.” MomentsMediaInsaneSentimentsPrincessCrashSentimentalFeedingPornographyFrenzy 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.” MomentsOur LivesInfluenceTvsProfound Author:Barbara Kruger
“What I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition.” TryingMomentsRecognition Author:Barbara Kruger
