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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.

Barbara Kruger

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Barbara Kruger
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 26
Artist
Conceptual Artist
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Newark
New Jersey
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But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.
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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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I've always been very tied to language.
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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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All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.
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I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.
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Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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You make history when you do business.
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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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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'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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You want it, you buy it, you forget it.
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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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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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