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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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I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure and laughter and to disrupt the dour certainties of pictures, property, and power.
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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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Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.
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I feel uncomfortable with the term public art, because I'm not sure what it means. If it means what I think it does, then I don't do it. I'm not crazy about categories.
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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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You want it, you buy it, you forget it.
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I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
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I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.
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