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The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

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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

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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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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

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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

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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

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I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

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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'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. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

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