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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

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Barbara Kruger
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 26
Artist
Conceptual Artist
Painter
Photographer
Visual Artist
Newark
New Jersey
Barbarah Ḳruger
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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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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.
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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.
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You want it, you buy it, you forget it.
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Love is something you fall into.
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We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
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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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