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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
Barbara Kruger
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Barbara Kruger
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 26
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Conceptual Artist
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Photographer
Visual Artist
Newark
New Jersey
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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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It's really hard for me to use the term 'history' in the singular, because it suggests a reductivist view of how moments and events congeal and reflect the passage of time. I'd rather stick to the pluralness of 'histories' in order to suggest the simultaneity, the parallel forces at work, which produce lived experience.
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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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