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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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I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
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I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are, what we want to be and what we become.
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I've always been very tied to language.
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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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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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