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I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
Barbara Kruger
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Barbara Kruger
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 26
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Conceptual Artist
Painter
Photographer
Visual Artist
Newark
New Jersey
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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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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 think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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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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