All Quotes by Barbara Kruger
“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'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.”
“Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.”
“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.”
“All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.”
“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.”
“Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.”
“When I hear the word Culture I take out my checkbook”
“If you can’t feel it, it must be real.”
“Memory is your image of perfection.”
“Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me — the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.”
“I have no complaints, except for the world.”
“What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers.”