Barbara Kruger Artist Quotations

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

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

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

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

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

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

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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