Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Barbara Kruger
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 26
Artist
Conceptual Artist
Painter
Photographer
Visual Artist
Newark
New Jersey
Barbarah Ḳruger
Barbarah Kruger
Barabra Kruger
Deals
Language
Pulling
Girl
Developed
Artist
Gun
Thing
Threat
Think
Skills
Thinking
Deal
Instead

More quotes by Barbara Kruger

Image
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.
Barbara Kruger
Image
I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.
Barbara Kruger
Image
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
Image
I have frequently said, and I will repeat again, in the manner of any well-meaning seriality, that I'm interested in mixing the ingratiation of wishful thinking with the criticality of knowing better.
Barbara Kruger
Image
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.
Barbara Kruger
Image
Love is something you fall into.
Barbara Kruger
Image
I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
Barbara Kruger
Image
If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
Barbara Kruger
Image
You want it, you buy it, you forget it.
Barbara Kruger
Image
You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
Barbara Kruger
Image
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.
Barbara Kruger
Image
I've always been very tied to language.
Barbara Kruger
Image
I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
Barbara Kruger
Image
All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.
Barbara Kruger
Image
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.
Barbara Kruger
Image
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.
Barbara Kruger
Image
Money talks. It makes art. It determines what food we eat, whether we are cured or die, and what shoes we wear.
Barbara Kruger
Image
It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.
Barbara Kruger
Image
I like suggesting that ‘we are slaves to the objects around us,’ that ‘plenty should be enough,’ or that the ‘buyer should beware,’ within the context of conventional selling space.
Barbara Kruger
Image
I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place.
Barbara Kruger