Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger
Barbara Krugeris an American conceptual artist. Much of her work consists of black-and-white photographs overlaid with declarative captions—in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed. The phrases in her works often include pronouns such as "you", "your", "I", "we", and "they", addressing cultural constructions of power, identity, and sexuality. Kruger lives and works in New York and Los Angeles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionConceptual Artist
Date of Birth26 January 1945
CityNewark, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
Barbara Kruger quotes about
Memory is your image of perfection.
We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.
I have no complaints, except for the world.
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.
All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype,
It's a small world, but not if you have to clean it
I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.
I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
I think that the exactitude of the photograph has a sort of compelling nature based in its power to duplicate life. But to me the real power of photography is based in death: the fact that somehow it can enliven that which is not there in a kind of stultifying frightened way, because it seems to me that part of one's life is made up of a constant confrontation with one's own death.
You want it, you buy it, you forget it.
Doubt tempers belief with sanity.
GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.
I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.