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“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.”

Quote by Barbara Kruger

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Barbara Kruger, born on January 26, 1945, is a renowned artist known for her strong visual style and critical social and political messages in her work. more

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.”

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“I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.”

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“I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.”

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“If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.”

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“Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.”

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“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.”

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