Top 52 Quotes by Barbara Kruger

About Barbara Kruger

These are some quotes by American author Barbara Kruger Artist, who was born in 1945.

Power doesn't just exist. It is threaded through different mechanisms of control. I'm interested in those complexities. But I want to address that in very forthright language and sometimes with images.

Barbara Kruger

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 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

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.

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.

Barbara Kruger

I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.

Barbara Kruger

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 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

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

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

Barbara Kruger

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.

Barbara Kruger

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.

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

I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

Barbara Kruger

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

Barbara Kruger

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