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The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life.

Barbara Kruger

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Barbara Kruger
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 26
Artist
Conceptual Artist
Painter
Photographer
Visual Artist
Newark
New Jersey
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You want it, you buy it, you forget it.
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We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
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Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.
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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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You make history when you do business.
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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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