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Barbara Kruger
1945 -
Nationality: American
Category: Artist
Subcategory: American Artist

As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

   

I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.

   

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

   

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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