Best quotes by Barbara Kruger on Work

Checkout quotes by Barbara Kruger on Work

• ‟ Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.

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• ‟ Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.

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• ‟ What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

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

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• ‟ I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

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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.

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• ‟ I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.

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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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.

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• ‟ I believe that who we are, and consequently the work that we make, whether we're visual artists or writers or journalists or filmmakers, is a projection of where we were born, what's been withheld or lavished upon us, our color, our sex, our class. And everything we do in life to some degree is a reflection of that context.

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• ‟ I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job.

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