Barbara Kruger Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 26, 1945

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I think my biggest appeal for fans is probably the fact that I'm honest. I'm up front about who I am. I'm a little naughty. I have a naughty side and everybody knows that. But I know when to use that and when not to.

John Barrowman

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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

John Galsworthy

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In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.

Robert Gottlieb

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Advertising is the 'wonder' in Wonder Bread.

Jef I. Richards

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The cost is minimal, but one of the things that you want in a universal design is to make the plan as open as you can... and to still have walls around bedrooms and that sort of thing, and to keep the corridors wide enough so the wheelchair can do a 360 in the corridor.

Michael Graves

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I not only read Raymond Chandler but read all the crime fiction classics. I was hooked.

Michael Connelly

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I'm really looking forward to developing just really fun, complex, interesting stories about people who happen to be black.

Tracie Thoms

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Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

Robert Fripp

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I wish for a world where everyone understands that discomfort is the price of legendary. And fear is just growth coming to get you.

Robin S. Sharma

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I was born in Nagpur and brought up in Ahmedabad, where my father had a small factory.

Ronit Roy

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There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as a Latin band. We could never expect to do that. We just keep doing what we do, what we know how to do. We sound like ourselves.

Mike Gordon

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I've always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my novel 'Black Water,' I provide a voice for someone who has died and can't speak for herself.

Joyce Carol Oates

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