American - Artist | January 26, 1945 -
The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.
Barbara Kruger
BusinessFocusAdventurePeopleWhy
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.
LifeArtThinkFeelTryingChanges
If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
CultureNew YorkAmericanNewGlobal
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.
WorkGoodMovingGood WorkThink
What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.
WorkTechnologyConstructionUp
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 AmPeopleThinkCriticismAsking
Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.
WorkConsistentWorkingBeenDirect
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.
WorkOpportunitySpacePeopleWindow
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.
GirlGunThinkLanguageKnowSkills
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.
ArtCrazyThinkFeelUncomfortable
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.
WordsArtistPicturesSometimesUp
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.
HistoryBookThinkCircumstances
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Barbara Kruger quotes