“I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.” PeopleThinkingFeelsLittlesBattleDebateScareDisagreeThreatenedIdeologicalFraming Author:Barbara Kruger
“I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.” PeopleThinkingWayDifferentArtistPleasureCriticismAskingDifferent Ways Author:Barbara Kruger
“It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.” PeopleHardClassSupportWorking Class Author:Barbara Kruger
“The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.” PeopleWayStatesReasonFilmFocusAdventureCrisisNarrativeReason WhyGoing OutBookstores 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.” PeopleWantArtistOpportunitySpaceAttentionWindowLike MeAttention SpanWindow Of OpportunityShort Attention Spans 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
