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... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the real at all. I don't want to get into jargon - let's just say that photography to me no longer pertains to the rhetoric of realism; it pertains more perhaps to the rhetoric of the unreal rather than the real or of course the hyperreal.

Barbara Kruger's Popular Quotes

You make history when you do business.

- Barbara Kruger

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

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I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical…

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I see my work as a series of attempts to ruin certain representations and to welcome a female spectator into the audience of men. If this work is con…

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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I…

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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

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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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But I really resist categories – that naming is a closing down of meaning. Women's art, political art – those categorisations perpetuate a certain ki…

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I have no complaints, except for the world.

- Barbara Kruger