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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. ↗

— 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

#detonate #experience #feeling #i #i think

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

#constructed #deal #fame #hearsay #histories

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. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#american #american cities #angeles #cities #consumption

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. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#influence #lives #many #moments #most

There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#building #happens #i #i love #just

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