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I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

~Barbara Kruger

Topics: About Always Been Control Felt Issues Lots Morning News Newspapers Power Race Read Sexuality Shows Strongly Sunday Sunday Morning Tv Watched

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I like suggesting that 'we are slaves to the objects around us,' that 'plenty should be enough,' or that the 'buyer should beware,' within the context of conventional selling space.

~Barbara Kruger

Topics: Around Beware Context Conventional Enough Like Objects Plenty Selling Should Slaves Space Suggesting Us Within

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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

Topics: Become Becomes Craziness Gossip History Kind Narrative Scary Sustained Turn Which

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

~Barbara Kruger

Topics: Address Been Consistent Direct Medium Regardless Tactic Work Working

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I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

~Barbara Kruger

Topics: Deal Developed Girl Gun Instead Know Language Out Pulling Skills Thing Think Threat I Think

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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

Topics: Artist Determine Different Different Kinds Ends Kinds Like Looks Means Pictures Sites Sometimes Stuff Up Which Who Words Works

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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

~Barbara Kruger

Topics: Art Certain Certain Level Changes Feel Level Life Normally Overlook Resist Resistance Site Social Social Life Still Stories Suggest Telling Think Trying Validating Various I Think I Feel

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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.

~Barbara Kruger

Topics: Adds Construction Expensive Installation Makes Objects Production Really Technology Thing Up Whole Work

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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

Topics: Attention Drawn Like Lot Me Opportunity People Relatively Shoot Short Space Spans Want Window Work

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

~Barbara Kruger

Topics: Bring Figure Had How Out Work World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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