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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. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#art #art work #content #design #formal

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#attention spans #because #do you know #does #i

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. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#debate #demonize #disagree #feel #framing

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. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

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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. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#contexts #determine #different #different kinds #ends

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#constructed #deal #fame #hearsay #histories

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#choose #delusion #drag #especially #friends

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. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#change #changes #connect #different #enveloping

Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#although #art #background #commercial #hell

Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#both #cold #cold war #confusion #east