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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

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.

From Barbara Kruger

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.

From Barbara Kruger

I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that 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.

From Barbara Kruger

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

From Barbara Kruger

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

From Barbara Kruger

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

From Barbara Kruger

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

From Barbara Kruger

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

From Barbara Kruger

I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.

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