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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

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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

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime? ↗

— Peter Kropotkin

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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. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

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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 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. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#biography #book #circumstances #events #every

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 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. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#attention spans #drawn #i #into #like

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

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