“The different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.” WritingDifferentTermPracticeTeachingActivityAspectCriticismSeparationVisuals Author:Barbara Kruger
“We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.” LanguagePiecesStealingVisualsObliged Author:Barbara Kruger
“I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.” TryingArtistSocialDealsDegreesDifficultyComplexityVisualsPresentationSocial 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
“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
“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
“Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.” IfsWantFirstsMovingNightSpacePleasureArchitectureVisualsFirst LoveConstructsDay And Night Author:Barbara Kruger