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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

Barbara Kruger

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Barbara Kruger
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 26
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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 just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.
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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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All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.
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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.
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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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It entered the visual vocabulary of photographers, painters and sculptors and focused on what pictures and words look like and what they can mean.
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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 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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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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