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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.

Barbara Kruger

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Barbara Kruger
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 26
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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.
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
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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.
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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.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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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.
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I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.
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Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.
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I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
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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.
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I worked with someone else's photos I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. Why couldn't that be my art?
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Photography has saturated us as spectators from its inception amidst a mingling of laboratorial pursuits and magic acts to its current status as propagator of convention, cultural commodity, and global hobby.
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Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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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.
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You want it, you buy it, you forget it.
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